2001 Translation

SŌMATI, sōmati

Sounds Like: SOH-mah-tee

Translations: to a body, to the body, to a person, to the person, to a slave, to the slave

From the root: ΣΩΜΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a body, whether human or animal, or even a collective body like a community. It can also refer to a person or, in some contexts, a slave. The form ΣΩΜΑΤΙ indicates the dative case, meaning it typically answers the question 'to whom?' or 'to what?' and often functions as an indirect object or indicates location or instrument.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G4983 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 102:5

Clement of Alexandria

• To the Newly Baptized — 1:4

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 37:5

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 11:15
• Proverbs — 3:8, 25:20
• Job — 3:17, 40:32
• Wisdom — 1:4
• Sirach — 7:24, 23:17, 47:19
• Matthew — 6:25
• Mark — 5:29
• Luke — 12:22
• Romans — 6:12, 12:4
• 1 Corinthians — 5:3, 6:13, 6:20, 7:34, 12:18, 12:25, 15:35
• 2 Corinthians — 4:10, 5:6, 12:2, 12:3
• Galatians — 6:17
• Ephesians — 2:16
• Philippians — 1:20, 3:21
• Colossians — 1:22, 3:15
• Hebrews — 13:3
• 1 Peter — 2:24
• Epistle of Barnabas — 10:8

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 1:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 2:60
• Book 3 — 7:153
• Book 5 — 4:188
• Book 7 — 8:164
• Book 9 — 8:183
• Book 13 — 15:403
• Book 15 — 7:251
• Book 16 — 8:249
• Book 17 — 9:238, 12:337
• Book 18 — 6:203, 8:282
• Book 19 — 2:195

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 22:29
• Book Three — 7:100, 7:139
• Book Four — 7:18
• Book Five — 13:23
• Book Six — 1:55, 7:2
• Book Seven — 8:93, 8:94, 8:96

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 19:1

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 6:1, 6:3, 6:7

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 8:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Leviticus — 15:19, 19:28
• Tobit — 11:15, 13:6
• 2 Maccabees — 15:30
• 4 Maccabees — 10:4
• Proverbs — 3:8, 25:20
• Job — 3:17, 6:4, 40:27
• Wisdom — 1:4
• Sirach — 7:24, 23:16, 47:19

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 6:25
• Mark — 5:29
• Luke — 12:22
• Romans — 6:12, 12:4
• 1 Corinthians — 5:3, 6:13, 6:20, 7:34, 12:18, 12:25, 15:35
• 2 Corinthians — 4:10, 5:6, 12:2, 12:3
• Galatians — 6:17
• Ephesians — 2:16
• Philippians — 1:20, 3:21
• Colossians — 1:22, 3:15
• Hebrews — 13:3
• 1 Peter — 2:24

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
• 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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