The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
The 1611 reading
The life is more then meate, and the body is more then raiment.
KJV dictionary & concordance
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
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Exodus 24:10
Complete exact-word concordance
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
The life is more then meate, and the body is more then raiment.
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
And they answered, and said vnto him, Where, Lord? And he said vnto them, Wheresoeuer the body is, thither will the Eagles be gathered together.
1611 marginal noteMat. 24.28.
¶ And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
¶ And hee tooke bread, and gaue thankes, and brake it, and gaue vnto them, saying, This is my body which is giuen for you, this doe in remembrance of me.
1611 marginal noteMatth. 26.26.
This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
This man went vnto Pilate, and begged the body of Iesus.
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
And the women also which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the Sepulchre, and how his body was layd.
And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
And they entred in, and found not the body of the Lord Iesus.
And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
And when they found not his bodie, they came, saying, that they had also seene a vision of Angels, which saide that he was aliue.
But he spake of the temple of his body.
But he spake of the temple of his body.
¶ And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
¶ And after this, Ioseph of Arimathea (being a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of the Iewes) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Iesus, and Pilate gaue him leaue: he came therefore, and tooke the body of Iesus.
1611 marginal noteMat. 27.57.
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Then tooke they the body of Iesus, & wound it in linnen clothes, with the spices, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie:
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Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
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.
For the body is not one member, but many.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
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.