Gematria of Body
14 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “body” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,362 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 14
- Occurrences
- 1,362
- Distinct values
- 14
The 14 Hebrew words rendered “body”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:20בראשית א:כנֶפֶשׁ
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
First appearance ·Genesis 2:21בראשית ב:כאבָּשָׂר
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
First appearance ·Genesis 2:23בראשית ב:כגעֶצֶם
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
First appearance ·Genesis 25:23בראשית כה:כגבְּבִטְנֵךְ
a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol
First appearance ·Leviticus 5:2ויקרא ה:בבְנִבְלַת
the thigh (from its fleshy softness); by euphemistically the generative parts; figuratively, a shank, flank, side
First appearance ·Genesis 24:2בראשית כד:ביְרֵכִֽי
flesh (as swelling out), as living or forfood; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood
First appearance ·Exodus 21:10שמות כא:ישְׁאֵרָהּ
the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.
First appearance ·Leviticus 14:9ויקרא יד:טגַּבֹּת
a body, whether alive or dead
First appearance ·Genesis 47:18בראשית מז:יחגְּוִיָּתֵנוּ
the back; by analogy, the middle
First appearance ·Isaiah 38:17ישעיהו לח:יזגֵוְךָ
used in a peculiar sense, the body (probably for the (figuratively) idea of a hard rain)
First appearance ·Daniel 3:27דניאל ג:כזבְּגֶשְׁמְהוֹן
a corpse (as closed to sense)
First appearance ·1 Chronicles 10:12דברי הימים א י:יבגּוּפַת
the back, i.e. (by extensive) the person
First appearance ·Job 20:25איוב כ:כהמִגֵּוָה
a sheath; figuratively, the body (as the receptacle of the soul)
First appearance ·Daniel 7:15דניאל ז:טונִדְנֶה
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of body?
The Tanakh renders “body” with 14 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: נפש = 430, בשר = 502, עצם = 200, and 11 more.
How do you say body in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 14 Hebrew words for “body”; the most frequent are נפש (nephesh), 754 times; בשר (bâsâr), 270 times; עצם (ʻetsem), 126 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.