σάρξ
sarx
σάρξ, σαρκός, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for בָּשָׂר ;]
flesh;
1. as in cl. generally,
(a) prop., of the soft substance of the animal body: 1Co.15:39, 2Co.12:7, Gal.6:13, al.; σ. καὶ αἷμα, 1Co.5:50; σ. καὶ ὀστέα, Luk.24:39; pl., of the flesh of many or parts of the flesh of one (cl.), Rev.17:16 19:18; φαγεῖν, Re, ll. with (cf. κατεσθίειν, 4Ki.9:36, al., and βιβρώσκειν, frequently in l.); metaphorically, Jas.5:3; mystically, φ. (τρώγειν) τὴν σ. τοῦ υἱοῦ τ. ἀνθρώπου, Jhn.6:52-56;
(b) Of the whole substance of the body, = σῶμα: Act.2:26 (LXX), 31, 2Co.12:7, Gal.4:14, Eph.5:29; μία σ., Mrk.10:8; εἰς σ. μίαν (Gen.2:24), Mat.19:5, Mrk.10:8, 1Co.6:16, Eph.5:31; hence, of the material as opposite to the immaterial part of man (cf. Lft., Notes, 88): opposite to πνεῦμα, 1Co.5:5, 2Co.7:1, Col.2:5, 1Pe.3:18, 4:6; to ψύχη, Act.2:31, Rec.; of the present life, ἐν (τῇ) σ., Rom.7:5, Gal.2:20, Php.1:22, 24 1Pe.4:2; of Christ's life on earth, αἱ ἡμέραι τ. σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ, Heb.5:7; of things pertaining to the body, ἐν (τῇ) σ., Gal.6:12, 13 Php.3:3, 4.
2. As in Heb. idiom,
(a) of a living creature: πᾶσα σ. (Heb. כָּל־בָּשָׂר; cf. Bl., §47, 9), Mat.24:22, Mrk.13:20, 1Pe.1:24; esp. of man and his mortality (Psa.55 (56):5, Sir.28:5, al.), Jhn.1:14; πᾶσα σ. (see supr.), Luk.3:6, Jhn.17:2, Act.2:17, ἐν σ., 1Jo.4:2, 1Ti.3:16;
(b) of natural origin and relationship (Gen.2:24, Isa.58:7, al.): τέκνα τῆς σ., Rom.9:8; κατὰ σάρκα, ib. 3, 5, 1Co.10:18, Gal.4:23, 29; ἡ σ. μου, Rom.11:14 (cf. Jdg.9:2, 2Ki.5:1, al.).
3. Of the physical nature as subject to sensation and desire (Plut.),
(a) without any ethical disparagement: Rom.7:18 13:14; opposite to πνεῦμα, Mat.26:41, Mrk.14:38; τ. θέλημα τῆς σ., Jhn.1:13; ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς σ., 1Jn.2:16; pl., 2Pe.2:18; παθεῖν σαρκί, 1Pe.4:1;
(b) in ethical sense, esp. in Pauline Epp., of the flesh as the seat and vehicle of sinful desires: opposite to νοῦς, Rom.7:25; to πνεῦμα, Rom.8:4-9, 12, 13, Gal.5:16, 17 19 6:8 (cf. DB, ii, 14f.; iv, 165f.; Cremer, 844ff.).
(AS)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
Forms
By book
Old Testament
New Testament
Concordance 126 verses
- 1 Corinthians 6:16 σάρκα
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 7:28 σαρκὶ
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 10:18 σάρκα
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
- 1 Corinthians 15:39 σὰρξσάρξσὰρξσὰρξ
Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.
- 1 Corinthians 15:50 σὰρξ
Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
- 2 Corinthians 1:17 σάρκα
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 4:11 σαρκὶ
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 5:16 σάρκασάρκα
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 7:1 σαρκὸς
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 7:5 σὰρξ
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 10:2 σάρκα
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 10:3 σαρκὶσάρκα
For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 11:18 σάρκα
Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
- 2 Corinthians 12:7 σαρκί
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.
- Galatians 1:16 σαρκὶ
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 2:16 σάρξ
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 2:20 σαρκί
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 3:3 σαρκὶ
Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?
- Galatians 4:13 σαρκὸς
You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
- Galatians 4:14 σαρκί
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 4:23 σάρκα
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 4:29 σάρκα
At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
- Galatians 5:13 σαρκί
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 5:16 σαρκὸς
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- Galatians 5:17 σὰρξσαρκός
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 5:19 σαρκός
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Galatians 5:24 σάρκα
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- Galatians 6:8 σάρκασαρκὸς
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 6:12 σαρκί
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 6:13 σαρκὶ
For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
- Ephesians 2:3 σαρκὸςσαρκὸς
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 2:11 σαρκίσαρκὶ
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 2:15 σαρκὶ
by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
- Ephesians 5:29 σάρκα
Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
- Ephesians 5:31 σάρκα
“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 6:5 σάρκα
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
- Ephesians 6:12 σάρκα
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.
- Philippians 1:22 σαρκί
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 1:24 σαρκὶ
But it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.
- Philippians 3:3 σαρκὶ
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 3:4 σαρκίσαρκί
though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
- Colossians 1:22 σαρκὸς
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
- Colossians 1:24 σαρκί
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 2:1 σαρκί
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 2:5 σαρκὶ
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 2:11 σαρκός
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 2:13 σαρκὸς
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 2:18 σαρκὸς
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 2:23 σαρκός
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 3:22 σάρκα
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.