2001 Translation

SŌMATOS, sōmatos

Sounds Like: SOH-mah-tos

Translations: of body, of a body, of flesh, of a flesh, of substance, of a substance

From the root: ΣΩΜΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the physical body, whether human or animal, or to a substance or material. It can also refer to a collective body, like a group of people. In a broader sense, it can denote the substance or reality of something, as opposed to its shadow or image. It is used to describe the physical aspect of a being or object.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter

Strong’s number: G4983 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 15:9

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:20, 1:22, 1:75, 1:155, 1:303

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:76, 2:98
• To the Newly Baptized — 1:5

Codex Sinaiticus

• 2 Esdras — 19:26
• 4 Maccabees — 1:28, 1:35, 7:13, 10:20, 17:1
• Proverbs — 5:11
• Job — 20:25, 36:28
• Wisdom — 18:22
• Sirach — 30:16
• Matthew — 6:22, 26:12
• Luke — 11:34
• John — 2:21
• Romans — 7:4, 7:24, 8:13, 8:23
• 1 Corinthians — 6:18, 7:4, 10:16, 11:27, 12:12, 12:15, 12:16, 12:22, 12:23
• 2 Corinthians — 5:8, 5:10, 10:10, 12:2, 12:3
• Ephesians — 4:12, 4:16, 5:23, 5:30
• Colossians — 1:18, 1:24, 2:11, 2:23
• Hebrews — 10:10
• James — 2:16
• Jude — 1:9
• Shepherd of Hermas — 19:4

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 4:2, 5:3

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 31:284, 4:47
• Book Two — 4:47

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 2:64, 18:275
• Book 2 — 2:9
• Book 3 — 6:140
• Book 4 — 6:134, 6:153, 8:245
• Book 6 — 1:3, 5:71, 6:130, 7:137, 9:171, 14:326
• Book 7 — 8:189, 11:287, 14:343
• Book 8 — 13:357
• Book 9 — 6:124, 10:213
• Book 11 — 5:176
• Book 12 — 2:28, 2:33, 2:105
• Book 13 — 2:53, 16:429
• Book 14 — 11:286
• Book 15 — 2:17, 6:190, 7:237
• Book 16 — 7:218
• Book 17 — 9:238, 10:273, 10:278, 12:333
• Book 18 — 5:117, 9:333, 9:345
• Book 19 — 1:122, 3:222

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 8:6, 10:11, 18:18, 21:12, 33:16
• Book Two — 2:18, 4:3, 4:6, 7:10, 8:10, 18:13, 18:20, 20:25, 20:28, 21:4
• Book Three — 3:20, 7:143, 8:39
• Book Four — 1:25, 3:72
• Book Five — 2:15, 9:38
• Book Six — 1:46, 1:81, 2:65, 2:70, 2:72, 2:81
• Book Seven — 8:98

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 4:5, 29:3, 42:3, 69:7

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 16:85, 28:137, 47:242, 63:329, 71:397

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 6:2, 6:3

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 14:2

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 5:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Leviticus — 15:2, 15:3
• Nehemiah — 9:26
• 2 Maccabees — 3:17, 9:7, 9:9
• 4 Maccabees — 1:28, 1:35, 7:13, 10:20, 17:1
• Proverbs — 5:11
• Job — 20:25, 36:28, 41:14
• Wisdom — 18:22
• Sirach — 30:16
• Ezekiel — 1:11, 23:35
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:94
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 1:15, 3:94
• Enoch — 15:9

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 3 — 11:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 6:22, 26:12
• Luke — 11:34
• John — 2:21
• Romans — 7:4, 7:24, 8:13, 8:23
• 1 Corinthians — 6:18, 7:4, 10:16, 11:27, 12:12, 12:15, 12:16, 12:22, 12:23
• 2 Corinthians — 5:8, 5:10, 10:10, 12:2, 12:3
• Ephesians — 4:12, 4:16, 5:23, 5:30
• Colossians — 1:18, 1:24, 2:11, 2:23
• Hebrews — 10:10
• James — 2:16
• Jude — 1:9

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΩΜΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΓΕΣΩΜΑΤΑ — bodies, the bodies
• ΣΟΜΑ — body, a body
• ΣΟΜΑΙΟΥΣ — bodies
• ΣΩΑΤΙΟΝ — little body, a little body, body, a body
• ΣΩΜΑ — body, a body, flesh, a slave
• ΣΩΜΑΔ' — body, a body, flesh, substance
• ΣΩΜΑΡ — body, a body, flesh, a corpse, a slave
• ΣΩΜΑΡΕΩΝΙ — (to) a body, (to) the body
• ΣΩΜΑΡΟΥ — of body, of a body, of flesh, of a flesh
• ΣΩΜΑΣΙ — (to) bodies, (for) bodies, (in) bodies, bodies
• ΣΩΜΑΣΙΝ — (to) bodies, (to) a body
• ΣΩΜΑΤΑ — bodies, slaves, persons
• ΣΩΜΑΤΑΤΩΝ — bodies of the, of the bodies
• ΣΩΜΑΤΕΙΟΝ — body, a body, corporation, a corporation, guild, a guild, union, a union
• ΣΩΜΑΤΙ — to a body, to the body, to a person, to the person, to a slave, to the slave
• ΣΩΜΑΤΙΚΗ — bodily, physical, corporeal, a bodily, a physical, a corporeal
• ΣΩΜΑΤΙΚΟΣ — bodily, physical, corporeal
• ΣΩΜΑΤΙΚΩΝ — of bodily, of physical, of corporeal
• ΣΩΜΑΤΙΚΩΣ — bodily, physically, in a bodily way
• ΣΩΜΑΤΩΝ — of bodies, of persons, of slaves
• ΣΩΜΑΤΩΝΟΙ — It's not clear what this word means
• ΣΩΜΕΙ — to a body, for a body, with a body, by a body
• ΤΑΣΩΜΑΤΑ — the bodies, bodies
• ΤΕΣΩΜΑΤΑ — bodies, the bodies
• ΤΟΥΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ — (of) the body
• ΤΩΝΣΩΜΑΤΩΝ — (of) bodies

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