σῶμα

142 σῶμα , -τος, τό , [in LXX for גְּוִיָּה ,בָּשָׂר , etc., and for Aram. נְבֵלָה ;] a body . Prop., of the human body, as always in Hom. (opp. to δέμας ), of the dead body: Mt 27:58 , 59 Mk 15:43 , al.; of the living body: Lk 11:34 , I Co 6:13 , al.; ἐν σ. εἶναι , He 13:3 ; as the instrument of the soul, τὰ διὰ τοῦ σ. , II Co 5:10 ; opp. to πνεῦμα , Ro 8:10 , I Co 5:3 7:4 , Ja 2:26 ; to ψυχή , Mt 6:25 10:28 , Lk 12:22 (cf. Wi 1:4 , al.); to τὸ π. καὶ ἡ ψ. , I Th 5:23 ; σ. ψυχικόν , opp. to σ. πνευματικόν , I Co 15:44 ; ὁ ναὸς τοῦ σ. αὐτοῦ (gen. epexeg.), Jo 2:21 ; τὸ σ. τ. ταπεινώσεως ἡμῶν (Hebraistic "gen. of definition"; M, Pr. , 73 f.; Bl., §35, 5), opp. to τὸ σ. τ. δοξῆς αὐτοῦ , Phl 3:21 ; similarly, τὸ σ. τ. σαρκός , Col 1:22 ; σ. τοῦ θανάτου (subject to death), Ro 7:24 ; σ. τ. ἁμαρτίας , Ro 6:6 ; periphr., ἀνθρώπου , then absol., σῶμα (Soph., Xen., al.), a person , and in later writers (Polyb., al.), a slave : Re 18:13 (cf. MM, i, ii, xxiv; Deiss., BS , 160). Of the bodies of animals: living, Ja 3:3 ; dead, He 13:11 ( Ex 29:14 , al.). Of inanimate objects (cf. Eng. "heavenly bodies"): I Co 15:37 , 38 , 40 (Diod., al.). Of any corporeal substance (Plat., al.): opp. to σκιά , Col 2:17 . Metaph., of a number of persons united by a common bond; in NT, of the Church as the spiritual body of Christ: Ro 12:5 , I Co 10:16 , 17 12:13 , 27 , Eph 1:23 2:16 4:4 , 12 , 16 5:23 , 30 , Col 1:18 , 24 2:19 3:15 ; ἓν σ. κ. ἓν πνεῦμα , Eph 4:4 .