Biblica Analytica
G4561 Greek

σάρξ

sarx

flesh

Lexicon Entry

Definition
flesh
Transliteration
sarx
Strong's Number
G4561
Occurrences
152

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Explored

The Greek word σάρξ (sarx) is defined as "flesh," representing the physical body or material composition of humans. Its significance spans various aspects of life, as it is used 152 times in the Bible. In its broadest sense, "sarx" signifies the tangible and perishable aspects of human existence. It is often employed to contrast with the spiritual realm, as seen when it's paired with "pneuma" (spirit). This dichotomy underscores the tension between physical and non-physical aspects of human nature. The numerous occurrences of "sarx" in the Bible illustrate its diverse applications. It is used to describe both the body (1 Corinthians 6:19, "Your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit") and physical desires (Romans 7:5, "the flesh with its passions and desires"). This multifaceted usage suggests the word is essential for understanding the relationships between human bodies, desires, and spiritual pursuits.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
G4561
Lemma
σάρξ
Transliteration
sarx
Definition
flesh
Occurrences
152
Model
groq
Prompt version
1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

152 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

Matthew 16:17

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 19:5

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

Matthew 19:6

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Matthew 24:22

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

Matthew 26:41

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Mark 10:8

and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Mark 10:8

and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Mark 13:20

Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

Mark 14:38

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Luke 3:6

All flesh will see God’s salvation.’ ”

Luke 24:39

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

John 1:13

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:14

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 6:51

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6:52

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

John 6:53

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

John 6:54

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:55

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

John 6:56

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

John 6:63

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

John 8:15

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

John 17:2

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

Acts 2:17

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

Acts 2:26

Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;

Acts 2:30

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

Acts 2:31

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.

Romans 1:3

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

Romans 2:28

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

Romans 3:20

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:1

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

Romans 6:19

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

Romans 7:18

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

Romans 7:25

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:3

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Romans 8:3

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Romans 8:3

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Romans 8:4

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8:5

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:5

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:6

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

Romans 8:9

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Romans 8:12

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Romans 8:12

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Romans 8:13

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.