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Body

גּוּפָהStrong’s H1480

guphah (gu-phah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Guphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “corpse of” and “corpses of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.”
1 Chronicles 10:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. Body, corpse
How it's translated
  • corpse of 1
  • corpses of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Chronicles 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    גּוּפָה guphah · body

    body, corpse

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “body” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    BOD'Y, noun

    1. The frame of an animal; the material substance of an animal, in distinction from the living principle of beasts, and the soul of man.
    2. Matter, as opposed to spirit.
    3. A person; a human being; sometimes alone; more generally, with some or no; as, somebody; nobody.
    4. Reality, as opposed to representation.“A shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ” Colossians 2:17
    All definitions and other forms of “body”
    1. A collective mass; a number of individuals or particulars united; as the body of mankind. 1 Corinthians 12:12
    2. The main army, in distinction from the wings, van or rear.
    3. A corporation; a number of men, united by a common tie, by one form of government, or by occupation; as the legislative body; the body of the clergy; body corporate; body politic.
    4. The main part; the bulk; as the body of a tree; the body of a coach, of a ship, etc.
    5. Any extended solid substance; matter; any substance or mass distinct from others; as a metaline body; a floating body; a moving body; a light body; a heavy body
    6. A pandect; a general collection; a code; a system; as a body of laws; a body of divinity.
    7. Strength; as wine of a good body
    8. Among painters, colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color.
    9. The unrenewed part of man, or sensual affections.“But I keep under by body” 1 Corinthians 9:27
    10. The extent; the limits.

    BOD'Y, verb transitive

    To produce in some form.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.