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body

Meaning of “body”

Sense 1: The material frame of a person or creature. Sense 2: A visible form, mass, or main substance. Sense 3: A unified whole or company composed of members. Sense 4: Substantial reality distinguished from a shadow.

Definition sources

Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
174 occurrences151 verses35 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 24:10

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Mark 5:29
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 5:29 · retained source text

And straightway the fountaine of her blood was dried vp: and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 14:8 · retained source text

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Mark 14:22
¶ And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Mark 14:22 · retained source text

¶ And as they did eate, Iesus tooke bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gaue to them, and said, Take, eate: this is my body.

1611 marginal noteMat. 26.26.

Mark 14:51
And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 14:51 · retained source text

And there followed him a certaine yong man, hauing a linnen cloth cast about his naked body, and the yong men laid hold on him.

Mark 15:43
Joseph of Arimathæa, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 15:43 · retained source text

Ioseph of Arimathea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdome of God, came, and went in boldly vnto Pilate, and craued the body of Iesus.

Mark 15:45
And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 15:45 · retained source text

And when he knew it of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Ioseph.

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1 Corinthians 12:12

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:14

For the body is not one member, but many.

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

The frame of an animal; the material substance of an animal, in distinction from the living principle of beasts, and the soul of man. Reality, as opposed to representation. A collective mass; a number of individuals or particulars united. The main part; the bulk. Any extended solid substance; matter; any substance or mass distinct from others.

volume 1, leaf 291, column 1-2 (main dictionary)

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