Body
גְּשֵׁםStrong’s H1655geshem (ge-shem)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Geshem is the Aramaic word usually translated “body his”, “over body their” and “body their”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.”
Meaning
- Body
How it's translated
- body his 2
- over body their 1
- body their 1
- body its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:28In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
- Daniel 4:33In contextThe same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Daniel 5:21In contextAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 7:11In contextI beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
Aramaic dictionary
גְּשֵׁם geshem · body
body
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
- The frame of an animal; the material substance of an animal, in distinction from the living principle of beasts, and the soul of man.
- Matter, as opposed to spirit.
- A person; a human being; sometimes alone; more generally, with some or no; as, somebody; nobody.
- 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”
- A collective mass; a number of individuals or particulars united; as the body of mankind. 1 Corinthians 12:12
- The main army, in distinction from the wings, van or rear.
- 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.
- The main part; the bulk; as the body of a tree; the body of a coach, of a ship, etc.
- 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
- A pandect; a general collection; a code; a system; as a body of laws; a body of divinity.
- Strength; as wine of a good body
- 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.
- The unrenewed part of man, or sensual affections.“But I keep under by body” 1 Corinthians 9:27
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.