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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
σάρξ, σαρκός, ἡ
Greek transliteration: 
sarx
Simplified transliteration: 
sarx
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4561
GK Number: 
4922
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
147
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-3b(1)
Gloss: 

flesh, body

Definition: 

flesh, body, the soft tissue of a creature, often in contrast to bone, ligament, or sinew; by extension human, humankind, with a focus on the fallen human nature, which is frail and corrupt in contrast to immaterial (spiritual) things, thus the NIV (1984) translation sinful nature.

flesh, Lk. 24:39; Jn. 3:6; the human body, 2 Cor. 7:5; flesh, human nature, human frame, Jn. 1:13, 14; 1 Pet. 4:1; 1 Jn. 4:2; kindred, Rom. 11:14; lineage, Rom. 1:3; 9:3; flesh, humanity, human beings, Mt. 24:22; Lk. 3:6; Jn. 17:2; the circumstances of the body, material condition, 1 Cor. 5:5; 7:28; Phlm. 16; flesh, mere humanity, human fashion, 1 Cor. 1:26; 2 Cor. 1:17; flesh as the seat of passion and frailty, Rom. 8:1, 3, 5; carnality, Gal. 5:24; materiality, material circumstance, as opposed to the spiritual, Phil. 3:3, 4; Col. 2:18; a material system or mode, Gal. 3:3; Heb. 9:10

Greek-English Concordance for σάρξ

Matthew 16:17 And Jesus responded, saying to him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven.
Matthew 19:5 And he added, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem)
Matthew 19:6 So then they are no longer two, but one flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem). Therefore what God has joined together, no one must separate.”
Matthew 24:22 And unless those days were shortened, no human (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) being (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) would survive. But for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
Matthew 26:41 Stay alert and pray lest you enter a time of trial. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) is weak.”
Mark 10:8 and the two shall be one flesh.’ (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) So no longer are they two, but one flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem).
Mark 13:20 And unless the Lord had cut short the number of days, no one would survive; but on account of the elect, whom he chose, he cut short the days.
Mark 14:38 Stay alert and pray so that you will not come into temptation; the spirit is willing but the flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) is weak.”
Luke 3:6 Then will all flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) see the salvation of God!’”
Luke 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost does not have flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) and bones as you see that I have.”
John 1:13 who were born, not from human stock or from a physical (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) impulse or by a husband’s decision, but by God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) and dwelt among us, and we gazed on his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 3:6 What is born of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) is flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem), and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) — given on behalf of the world.”
John 6:52 Then the Jews began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) to eat?”
John 6:53 Jesus therefore said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will have no life in you.
John 6:54 The one who feeds on my flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day;
John 6:55 for my flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) is real food and my blood is real drink.
John 6:56 The one who eats my flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) and drinks my blood dwells in me, and I in him.
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
John 8:15 You judge according to human (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) standards; I judge no one.
John 17:2 since you have given him authority over all flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), that he should give eternal life to those you have given to him.
Acts 2:17 ‘And it will be in the last days,’ declares God, ‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2:26 on account of this my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; moreover my flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) also will dwell in hope.
Acts 2:31 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) see corruption.
Romans 1:3 the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem),
Romans 2:28 For that person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem).
Romans 3:20 So by the works of the law no flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) will be justified before him, because through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), has discovered about this?
Romans 6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of your natural (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) limitations.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.
Romans 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem); for I have the desire to do what is right, but I am unable to do it.
Romans 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), God, by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) and as a sin offering, condemned sin in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem),
Romans 8:4 so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) have set their minds on the things of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), but those who live according to the Spirit have set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6 To set the mind on the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) leads to death, but to set the mind on the Spirit brings life and peace,
Romans 8:7 because the mind set on the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) is hostile to God; it does not submit to the law of God; in fact, it cannot.
Romans 8:8 Those controlled by the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) cannot please God.
Romans 8:9 You, however, are not controlled by the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) but by the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Romans 8:12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), to live according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem),
Romans 8:13 for if you live according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), you will certainly die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed, cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem),
Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them by human (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) descent (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 9:8 This means it is not the children of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
Romans 11:14 if somehow I could provoke my own countrymen (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) to jealousy and save some of them.
Romans 13:14 Rather, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the sinful (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) nature to gratify its desires.
1 Corinthians 1:26 Consider your calling, brothers: according to worldly (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) standards (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), not many of you were wise, not many were influential, not many were of noble birth.
1 Corinthians 1:29 so that no one can boast in the presence of God.
1 Corinthians 5:5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), so that the spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

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