Ancient Greek

Noun

σῶμα • ‎(sôma) n ‎(genitive σώματος); third declension

1. body (both that of people and animals)
   1. (Epic and often in other early works) dead body
2. One's life in the physical world
3. That which is material (as opposed to spiritual)
4. person
5. An entire thing
6. (mathematics) three-dimensional object

Inflection

Descendants

• English: -some
• Coptic: ⲥⲱⲙⲁ ‎(sōma)

References

• σῶμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σῶμα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «σῶμα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4983”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bodily idem, page 87.
  • body idem, page 87.
  • constitution idem, page 164.
  • constitutional idem, page 165.
  • corporal idem, page 174.
  • corpse idem, page 174.
  • flesh idem, page 327.
  • frame idem, page 342.
  • health idem, page 391.
  • person idem, page 608.
  • personal idem, page 608.
  • physique idem, page 611.
  • stature idem, page 813.