σῶμα

σῶμα, -τος, τό,

[in LXX for גְּוִיָּה ,בָּשָׂר, etc., and for Aram. נְבֵלָה ;]

a body.

1. Prop., of the human body,

(a) as always in Hom. (opposite to δέμας), of the dead body: Matt 27,58, 59 Mark 15,43, al.;

(b) of the living body: Luk 11,34, 1 Kor 6,13, al.; ἐν σ. εἶναι, Hebr 13,3 as the instrument of the soul, τὰ διὰ τοῦ σ., 2 Kor 5,10 opposite to πνεῦμα, Rom 8,10, 1 Kor 5,3; 7,4, Jak 2,26; to ψυχή, Matt 6,25; 10,28, Luk 12,22 (cf. Wis 1,1, al.); to τὸ π. καὶ ἡ ψ., 1 Thess 5,23 σ. ψυχικόν, opposite to σ. πνευματικόν, 1 Kor 15,44 ὁ ναὸς τοῦ σ. αὐτοῦ (genitive epexeg.), Joh 2,21 τὸ σ. τ. ταπεινώσεως (Hebraistic "genitive of definition"; M, Pr., 73f.; Bl., §35, 5), opposite to τὸ σ. τ. δοξῆς αὐτοῦ, Fil 3,21 similarly, τὸ σ. τ. σαρκός, Kol 1,22 σ. τοῦ θανάτου (subject to death), Rom 7,24 σ. τ. ἁμαρτίας, Rom 6,6

(with) periphr., ἀνθρώπου, then absol., σῶμα (Soph., Xen., al.), a person, and in later writers (Polyb., al.), a slave: Åb 18,13 (cf. MM, i, ii, xxiv; Deiss., BS, 160).

2. Of the bodies of animals: living, Jak 3,3 dead, Hebr 13,11 ( 2 Mos 29,14, al.).

3. Of inanimate objects (cf. Eng. "heavenly bodies"): 1 Kor 15,37, 38, 40 (Diod., al.).

4. Of any corporeal substance (Plat., al.): opposite to σκιά, Kol 2,17, Metaphorical, of a number of persons united by a common bond; in NT, of the Church as the spiritual body of Christ: Rom 12,5, 1 Kor 10,16, 17; 12,13, 27, Ef 1,23; 2,16; 4,4, 12, 16; 5,23, 30, Kol 1,18, 24; 2,19; 3,15; ἓν σ. κ. ἓν πνεῦμα, Ef 4,4,