Template:4983
4983 ~σῶμα~ soma \@so’-mah\@ from 4982; TDNT-7:1024,1140; {See TDNT 780} n n AV-body 144, bodily 1, slave 1; 146
- 1) the body both of men or animals
- 1a) a dead body or corpse
- 1b) the living body
- 1b1) of animals
- 2) the bodies of planets and of stars (heavenly bodies)
- 3) is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body
- 3a) so in the NT of the church
- 4) that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself