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Greek noun (feminine) · G4561

σάρξ

sarxsarx

as in cl. generally; As in Heb. idiom; Of the physical nature as subject to sensation and desire (Plut.)

146 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: sárx

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4561is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 22 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 10
    spellings
  • 3
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4561

flesh (as stripped of the skin), i.e. (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extension) the body (as opposed to the soul (or spirit), or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred), or (by implication) human nature (with its frailties (physically or morally) and passions), or (specially), a human being (as such)

The King James renders it: carnal(-ly, + -ly minded), flesh(-ly).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

sarx is rendered "as in cl. generally; As in Heb. idiom; Of the physical nature as subject to sensation and desire (Plut.)". It stands 146 times in the Greek text, across twenty-two books.

  • Twenty-six of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "as in cl. generally".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 16:17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
  • The Greek text spells it ten different ways.

The first use

Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.

Matthew 16:17σὰρξ

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

The word carries three meanings: as in cl. generally, and As in Heb. idiom, and Of the physical nature as subject to sensation and desire (Plut.).

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
as in cl. generally__(a) prop., of the soft substance of the animal bodyTagged as
  • flesh129
  • in flesh5
  • with flesh1
WhereLuke 24:39Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself…
As in Heb. idiom__(a) of a living creatureTagged aslisted under the tableWhereMatthew 24:22If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect…
Of the physical nature as subject to sensation and desire (Plut.)__(a) without any ethical disparagementTagged as
  • of flesh7
  • the flesh4
WhereMatthew 26:41“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing…

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 146, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

10 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • σάρκα37
  • σαρκὸς30
  • σαρκὶ20
  • σαρκί18
  • σὰρξ18
  • σάρξ8
  • σάρκας7
  • σαρκός6
  • σαρκός.¶1
  • σαρκῶν1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular38N-DSF
  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular37N-ASF
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular37N-GSF
  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular26N-NSF
  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural7N-APF
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural1N-GPF

Matthew

five uses
  • Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.

    Matthew 16:17

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    Matthew 19:5

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

    Matthew 19:6

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

    Matthew 24:22

    • σάρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • “Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

    Matthew 26:41

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: the flesh

Mark

four uses
  • and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    Mark 10:8

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σάρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.

    Mark 13:20

    • σάρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

    Mark 14:38

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: the flesh

Luke

two uses
  • And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’”

    Luke 3:6

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see—for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

    Luke 24:39

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

John

thirteen uses
  • children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

    John 1:13

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of flesh
  • The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

    John 1:14

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.

    John 3:6

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σάρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

    John 6:51

    • σάρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

    John 6:52

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

    John 6:53

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

    John 6:54

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

    John 6:55

    • σάρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

    John 6:56

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

    John 6:63

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

    John 8:15

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

    John 17:2

    • σαρκόςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Acts

three uses
  • ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

    Acts 2:17

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,

    Acts 2:26

    • σάρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

    Acts 2:31

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Romans

twenty-six uses
  • regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,

    Romans 1:3

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.

    Romans 2:28

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

    Romans 3:20

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?

    Romans 4:1

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

    Romans 6:19

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

    Romans 7:5

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

    Romans 7:18

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

    Romans 7:25

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: the flesh
  • For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

    Romans 8:3

    • σαρκόςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of flesh
    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    Romans 8:4

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

    Romans 8:5

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,

    Romans 8:6

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

    Romans 8:7

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.

    Romans 8:8

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

    Romans 8:9

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

    Romans 8:12

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

    Romans 8:13

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

    Romans 9:3

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

    Romans 9:5

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: the flesh
  • So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

    Romans 9:8

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

    Romans 11:14

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

    Romans 13:14

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

1 Corinthians

eleven uses
  • Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.

    1 Corinthians 1:26

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • so that no one may boast in His presence.

    1 Corinthians 1:29

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

    1 Corinthians 5:5

    • σαρκόςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

    1 Corinthians 6:16

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

    1 Corinthians 7:28

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?

    1 Corinthians 10:18

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

    1 Corinthians 15:39

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

    1 Corinthians 15:50

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

2 Corinthians

eleven uses
  • When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” when I really mean “No, no”?

    2 Corinthians 1:17

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

    2 Corinthians 4:11

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

    2 Corinthians 5:16

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

    2 Corinthians 7:1

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of flesh
  • For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

    2 Corinthians 7:5

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

    2 Corinthians 10:2

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

    2 Corinthians 10:3

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.

    2 Corinthians 11:18

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

    2 Corinthians 12:7

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: in flesh

Galatians

eighteen uses
  • to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

    Galatians 1:16

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: with flesh
  • know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

    Galatians 2:16

    • σάρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

    Galatians 2:20

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

    Galatians 3:3

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: in flesh
  • You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

    Galatians 4:13

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

    Galatians 4:14

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

    Galatians 4:23

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

    Galatians 4:29

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

    Galatians 5:13

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

    Galatians 5:16

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

    Galatians 5:17

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σαρκόςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

    Galatians 5:19

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    Galatians 5:24

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

    Galatians 6:8

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

    Galatians 6:12

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

    Galatians 6:13

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Ephesians

eight uses
  • All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

    Ephesians 2:3

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

    Ephesians 2:11

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

    Ephesians 5:29

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

    Ephesians 5:31

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

    Ephesians 6:5

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

    Ephesians 6:12

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Philippians

five uses
  • But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.

    Philippians 1:22

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • But it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

    Philippians 1:24

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

    Philippians 3:3

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

    Philippians 3:4

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Colossians

nine uses
  • But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

    Colossians 1:22

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

    Colossians 1:24

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,

    Colossians 2:1

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

    Colossians 2:5

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

    Colossians 2:11

    • σαρκόςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

    Colossians 2:13

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

    Colossians 2:18

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

    Colossians 2:23

    • σαρκός.¶sarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.

    Colossians 3:22

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

1 Timothy

one use
  • By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

    1 Timothy 3:16

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Philemon

one use
  • no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.

    Philemon 1:16

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Hebrews

six uses
  • Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

    Hebrews 2:14

    • σαρκόςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of flesh
  • During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

    Hebrews 5:7

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

    Hebrews 9:10

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of flesh
  • For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,

    Hebrews 9:13

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

    Hebrews 10:20

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

    Hebrews 12:9

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

James

one use
  • Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.

    James 5:3

    • σάρκαςsarkasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: flesh

1 Peter

seven uses
  • For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

    1 Peter 1:24

    • σὰρξsarxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

    1 Peter 3:18

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: in flesh
  • And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

    1 Peter 3:21

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of flesh
  • Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

    1 Peter 4:1

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: in flesh
    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

    1 Peter 4:2

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

    1 Peter 4:6

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: in flesh

2 Peter

two uses
  • Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

    2 Peter 2:10

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

    2 Peter 2:18

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of flesh

1 John

two uses
  • For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

    1 John 2:16

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

    1 John 4:2

    • σαρκὶsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

2 John

one use
  • For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

    2 John 1:7

    • σαρκίsarkinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Jude

three uses
  • In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

    Jude 1:7

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.

    Jude 1:8

    • σάρκαsarkanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flesh
  • save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

    Jude 1:23

    • σαρκὸςsarkosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flesh

Revelation

seven uses
  • And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

    Revelation 17:16

    • σάρκαςsarkasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: flesh
  • so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

    Revelation 19:18

    • σάρκαςsarkasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: flesh
    • σάρκαςsarkasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: flesh
    • σάρκαςsarkasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: flesh
    • σάρκαςsarkasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: flesh
    • σάρκαςsarkasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: flesh
  • And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

    Revelation 19:21

    • σαρκῶνsarkonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: flesh

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in the first 120 verses where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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