adjective
sarkinos
Strong’sG4560
consisting of flesh
stem sarkin-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
σάρκινος, -η, -ον
(< σάρξ), [in LXX: II Ch 32:8, Ez 11:19 36:26 (בָּשָׂר), Es 4:17, Pr 24:23 (29:27) *;]
SYN.: σαρκικός, q.v
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4560 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsar'-kee-nos
similar to flesh, i.e. (by analogy) soft
Fromfrom G4561;
King Jamesfleshly.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
of or like flesh, fleshy, σ. ὄζος (see. ὄζος) σ. [μέρη] fleshy parts, such as the gums, Refs 4th c.BC+; made of flesh (and blood), Refs; ἄνθρωποι θνατοὶ καὶ σ. Refs 2nd c.BC+; σ. ἰχθῦς (opposed to a dream) Refs 3rd c.BC+; τοῖς τὸ χρήσιμον καὶ σ. καὶ ὠφέλιμον [ἔχουσι τῶν λόγων] substantial, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 made of gut, σχοινία Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 fleshly, of the flesh, Ep. Hebrew NT
II fleshy, corpulent, Refs 5th c.BC+
III σάρκινος ἤτοι γυργαθός, perhaps ={σαργάνη}Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sarkinos1×σάρκινός | sarkinas | sarkinem | sarkinois | sarkinais | sarkineim |
| object accusative | sarkinon | sarkinan | sarkinoin | sarkinain | ||
| direct address vocative | sarkinor | sarkinar | sarkinoir | sarkinair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | sarkinou | sarkinau1×σαρκίνης | sarkineu | sarkinoiu | sarkinaiu | sarkineiu |
| to, for dative | sarkino | sarkina | sarkine | sarkinoi1×σαρκίνοις | sarkinai1×σαρκίναις | sarkinei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
sarkin is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
sarkinos“flesh”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 7:14“flesh”… tos nomos pneumatikos atō; mis de sarkinos amō, pipraskorēntos hupo tan hamartan.… know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
sarkinau“physical”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Hebrews 7:16“physical”hos ouk kata nomon entolau sarkinau genatē alla kata dunamian zōau akatalutau,one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.
sarkinoi“flesh”to, fordative plural1×
1 Corinthians 3:1“flesh”… lalara vi hōs pneumatikoi alla hōs sarkinoi, hōs nēpioi en Christo.… not address you as spiritual, but as worldly — as infants in Christ.
sarkinai“human”to, fordative plural1×
2 Corinthians 3:3… plakai lithinai alla en plakai kardiai sarkinai.… of stone but on tablets of human hearts.