2001 Translation

SŌMA, sōma

Sounds Like: SOH-mah

Translations: body, a body, flesh, a slave

From the root: ΣΩΜΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the physical body of a human or animal, or a physical object. It can also metaphorically refer to a group of people or a community, or even to the substance of something. In some contexts, it can refer to a slave or servant, as a 'body' belonging to another.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G4983 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 106:2

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:139

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:16

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 37:5, 38:1, 46:7

Codex Sinaiticus

• Leviticus — 22:6
• Numbers — 19:7, 19:8
• 1 Chronicles — 10:12
• Esther — 4:17k
• Judith — 10:3
• 4 Maccabees — 1:27, 6:7, 11:11
• Psalms — 39:7
• Proverbs — 11:17
• Job — 7:5, 13:12, 19:26, 33:17, 33:24
• Wisdom — 2:3, 8:20, 9:15
• Sirach — 30:14, 30:15, 38:16, 48:13, 51:2
• Matthew — 5:29, 5:30, 6:22, 6:23, 6:25, 10:28, 26:26, 27:58, 27:59
• Mark — 14:8, 14:22, 15:43
• Luke — 11:34, 12:4, 12:23, 17:37, 22:19, 23:52, 23:55, 24:3, 24:23
• John — 19:38, 19:40, 20:12
• Acts of the Apostles — 9:40
• Romans — 4:19, 6:6, 8:10, 12:5
• 1 Corinthians — 6:13, 6:16, 6:18, 6:19, 9:27, 10:17, 11:24, 11:29, 12:12, 12:13, 12:14, 12:17, 12:19, 12:20, 12:24, 12:27, 13:3, 15:37, 15:38, 15:44
• Ephesians — 1:23, 4:4, 4:16
• Philippians — 3:21
• Colossians — 2:17, 2:19
• 1 Thessalonians — 5:23
• Hebrews — 10:5, 10:22
• James — 2:26, 3:2, 3:3, 3:6
• Shepherd of Hermas — 17:3, 94:5, 95:3, 95:4

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 4:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 31:281

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 8:291
• Book 5 — 8:317
• Book 6 — 4:45, 9:187, 13:306, 13:315, 14:376
• Book 7 — 1:19, 1:40, 3:66, 5:110, 8:163
• Book 8 — 1:15, 10:241, 10:242
• Book 9 — 9:203
• Book 12 — 11:432
• Book 13 — 11:317, 15:403
• Book 14 — 9:169, 12:312
• Book 15 — 6:181
• Book 16 — 8:247
• Book 17 — 12:333
• Book 18 — 6:236
• Book 19 — 2:198

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:15, 4:15, 5:22, 11:3, 31:13, 33:8, 34:10, 34:11, 34:27
• Book Two — 2:15, 2:18, 7:7, 8:7, 8:13, 8:27, 8:47
• Book Three — 5:35, 8:23, 8:39
• Book Four — 5:25
• Book Five — 1:27, 6:32
• Book Six — 1:11, 2:69, 2:77, 2:84
• Book Seven — 8:104, 11:15

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:10
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 5:2, 6:2, 14:1, 14:2, 31:3, 42:3, 62:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 32:160

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 6:7

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 15:2, 16:1, 17:2

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 12:4, 14:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 47:12, 47:18
• Leviticus — 6:10, 14:9, 15:3, 15:11, 15:13, 15:16, 15:21, 15:27, 16:4, 16:24, 16:26, 16:28, 17:16, 22:6
• Numbers — 8:7, 19:7, 19:8
• Deuteronomy — 21:23, 23:11
• Joshua — 8:29
• 1 Samuel — 31:10, 31:12
• 1 Kings — 13:22, 13:24, 13:28, 13:29, 20:27
• 1 Chronicles — 10:12, 28:1
• Ezra (Alpha) — 3:4
• Esther — 4:17
• Judith — 10:3, 13:9
• 2 Maccabees — 6:30, 7:7, 7:37, 9:29, 14:38
• 3 Maccabees — 2:29, 6:20
• 4 Maccabees — 1:27, 6:7, 11:11
• Psalms — 39:7
• Psalms of Solomon — 2:31
• Proverbs — 11:17
• Job — 7:5, 13:12, 33:17, 33:24
• Wisdom — 2:3, 8:20, 9:15
• Sirach — 30:14, 30:15, 38:16, 44:14, 48:13, 51:2
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:21
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 4:30, 5:21, 7:11, 10:6
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:13, 7:11

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 13:5, 13:7, 17:5, 18:3, 18:4

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 3 — 9:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 5:29, 5:30, 6:22, 6:23, 6:25, 10:28, 26:26, 27:58, 27:59
• Mark — 14:8, 14:22, 15:43
• Luke — 11:34, 11:36, 12:4, 12:23, 17:37, 22:19, 23:52, 23:55, 24:3, 24:23
• John — 19:38, 19:40, 20:12
• Acts — 9:40
• Romans — 4:19, 6:6, 8:10, 12:5
• 1 Corinthians — 6:13, 6:16, 6:18, 6:19, 9:27, 10:17, 11:24, 11:29, 12:12, 12:13, 12:14, 12:17, 12:19, 12:20, 12:24, 12:27, 13:3, 15:37, 15:38, 15:44
• Ephesians — 1:23, 4:4, 4:16
• Philippians — 3:21
• Colossians — 2:17, 2:19
• 1 Thessalonians — 5:23
• Hebrews — 10:5, 10:23
• James — 2:26, 3:2, 3:3, 3:6

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
• 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
• ΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ — of body, of a body, of flesh, of a flesh, of substance, of a substance
• 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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