Hebrew
בָּשָׂר ba·sar
“flesh” · 270 times in the Old Testament
Through the Bible
- “flesh” 80
- “meat” 53
- “body” 23
- “(not translated)” 10
- “himself” 8
- other ways 96
- sarx, the Greek the New Testament uses for it 147
In the New Testament it continues as sarx: Acts 2:17 quotes Joel 2:28, and puts this word in Greek.
As a table, book by book
| Book | Times |
|---|---|
| Genesis | 33 |
| Exodus | 14 |
| Leviticus | 61 |
| Numbers | 17 |
| Deuteronomy | 13 |
| Judges | 6 |
| 1 Samuel | 4 |
| 2 Samuel | 3 |
| 1 Kings | 4 |
| 2 Kings | 6 |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 |
| Nehemiah | 2 |
| Job | 18 |
| Psalms | 16 |
| Proverbs | 4 |
| Ecclesiastes | 5 |
| Isaiah | 17 |
| Jeremiah | 10 |
| Lamentations | 1 |
| Ezekiel | 24 |
| Daniel | 2 |
| Hosea | 1 |
| Joel | 1 |
| Micah | 1 |
| Haggai | 1 |
| Zechariah | 4 |
| Matthew | 5 |
| Mark | 4 |
| Luke | 2 |
| John | 13 |
| Acts | 3 |
| Romans | 26 |
| 1 Corinthians | 11 |
| 2 Corinthians | 11 |
| Galatians | 18 |
| Ephesians | 9 |
| Philippians | 5 |
| Colossians | 9 |
| 1 Timothy | 1 |
| Philemon | 1 |
| Hebrews | 6 |
| James | 1 |
| 1 Peter | 7 |
| 2 Peter | 2 |
| 1 John | 2 |
| 2 John | 1 |
| Jude | 3 |
| Revelation | 7 |
How the BSB translates it
Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.
With a pronoun joined
Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.
Where it occurs
Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.
“flesh” 80
Genesis 7
- 2:21 …closed up the area with flesh
- 2:23 …bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she…
- 2:23 …my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called…
- 2:24 …they will become one flesh
- 17:11 …You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and…
- 17:13 …be circumcised My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting…
- 40:19 …the birds will eat the flesh of your body…
Exodus 3
Leviticus 15
- 4:11 …the bull and all its flesh with its head and…
- 6:27 …Anything that touches its flesh will become holy and…
- 8:17 …bull with its hide flesh and dung he burned…
- 9:11 …But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside…
- 12:3 …on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin…
- 13:10 …and there is raw flesh in the swelling…
- 13:14 …But whenever raw flesh appears on someone he…
- 13:15 …priest sees the raw flesh he must pronounce him…
- 13:15 …him unclean The raw flesh is unclean it is…
- 13:16 …But if the raw flesh changes and turns white…
- 16:27 …camp and their hides flesh and dung must be…
- 17:11 …For the life of the flesh is in the blood…
- 17:14 …the life of all flesh is its blood Therefore…
- 17:14 …the life of all flesh is its blood whoever…
- 26:29 …You will eat the flesh of your own sons…
Numbers 4
Deuteronomy 4
Judges 1
- 8:7 …hand I will tear your flesh with the thorns and…
1 Samuel 1
- 17:44 …and I will give your flesh to the birds of…
2 Samuel 1
- 19:13 …to Amasa Aren’t you my flesh and blood May God…
2 Kings 3
2 Chronicles 1
- 32:8 …is only the arm of flesh but with us is…
Job 11
- 2:5 …Your hand and strike his flesh and bones and he…
- 6:12 …that of stone or my flesh made of bronze…
- 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms…
- 10:4 …Do You have eyes of flesh Do You see as…
- 10:11 …clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together…
- 19:20 …My skin and flesh cling to my bones…
- 19:22 …you never get enough of my flesh
- 33:21 His flesh wastes away from sight…
- 33:25 then his flesh is refreshed like a…
- 34:15 …all flesh would perish together and…
- 41:23 …The folds of his flesh are tightly joined they…
Psalms 6
- 27:2 …upon me to devour my flesh my enemies and foes…
- 50:13 …Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink…
- 78:39 …He remembered that they were but flesh a passing breeze that…
- 79:2 …birds of the air the flesh of Your saints to…
- 84:2 …the LORD my heart and my flesh cry out for the…
- 119:120 My flesh trembles in awe of…
Isaiah 5
Jeremiah 4
Lamentations 1
- 3:4 …He has worn away my flesh and skin He has…
Ezekiel 10
- 11:19 …give them a heart of flesh
- 21:5 …Then all flesh will know that I…
- 32:5 …I will put your flesh on the mountains and…
- 36:26 …give you a heart of flesh
- 37:8 …tendons appeared on them flesh grew and skin covered…
- 39:17 …There you will eat flesh and drink blood…
- 39:18 …You will eat the flesh of the mighty and…
- 40:43 …inside of the room and the flesh of the offering was…
- 44:7 …uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary…
- 44:9 …foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary…
Zechariah 3
“meat” 53
Genesis 1
- 9:4 …you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still…
Exodus 9
- 12:8 …They are to eat the meat that night roasted over…
- 12:46 …to take any of the meat outside the house and…
- 16:3 …we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill…
- 16:8 …LORD will give you meat to eat this evening…
- 16:12 …twilight you will eat meat and in the morning…
- 21:28 …must surely be stoned and its meat must not be eaten…
- 22:31 …You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal…
- 29:32 …sons are to eat the meat of the ram and…
- 29:34 …And if any of the meat of ordination or any…
Leviticus 8
- 7:15 The meat of the sacrifice of…
- 7:18 …If any of the meat from his peace offering…
- 7:19 Meat that touches anything unclean…
- 7:20 …who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering…
- 8:31 …and his sons Boil the meat at the entrance to…
- 8:32 …burn up the remainder of the meat and bread…
- 11:8 …You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses…
- 11:11 …you must not eat their meat and you must detest…
Numbers 8
- 11:4 …Who will feed us meat
- 11:13 …to me Give us meat to eat…
- 11:18 …and you will eat meat because you have cried…
- 11:18 …Who will feed us meat For we were better…
- 11:18 …LORD will give you meat and you will eat…
- 11:21 …I will give them meat and they will eat…
- 11:33 …But while the meat was still between their…
- 18:18 And their meat belongs to you just…
Deuteronomy 8
- 12:15 …may slaughter and eat meat within any of your…
- 12:20 …I want to eat meat you may eat it…
- 12:20 …promised and you crave meat and say I want…
- 12:23 …eat the life with the meat
- 12:27 …Present the meat and blood of your…
- 12:27 …but you may eat the meat
- 14:8 …You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass…
- 16:4 …days and none of the meat you sacrifice in the…
Judges 4
1 Samuel 1
- 2:15 …will not accept boiled meat from you but only…
1 Kings 2
Isaiah 4
Jeremiah 1
- 11:15 …evil schemes Can consecrated meat avert your doom When…
Ezekiel 4
Daniel 1
- 10:3 …no rich food no meat or wine entered my…
Hosea 1
- 8:13 …and though they eat the meat the LORD does not…
Haggai 1
- 2:12 …a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of…
“body” 23
Leviticus 6
- 13:13 …has covered his entire body he is to pronounce…
- 15:7 …Whoever touches the body of the man with…
- 15:16 …must bathe his whole body with water and he…
- 15:19 …discharge consisting of blood from her body she will be unclean…
- 19:28 …not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or…
- 21:5 …beards or make cuts in their bodies
Numbers 3
2 Kings 1
- 4:34 …over him the boy’s body became warm…
Job 2
Psalms 4
Proverbs 2
Ecclesiastes 2
Isaiah 2
Ezekiel 1
- 10:12 …Their entire bodies including their backs hands…
Not translated: the English carries it without a word 10
“himself” 8
Leviticus 8
- 14:9 …his clothes and bathe himself with water and he…
- 15:13 …his clothes and bathe himself in fresh water and…
- 16:4 …and he must bathe himself with water before he…
- 16:24 …He is to bathe himself with water in a…
- 16:26 …his clothes and bathe himself with water afterward he…
- 16:28 …his clothes and bathe himself with water and afterward…
- 17:16 …his clothes and bathe himself then he shall bear…
- 22:6 …unless he has bathed himself with water…
“own flesh” 7
“skin” 7
“creature” 6
Genesis 4
Psalms 2
“mankind” 5
“people” 4
“living creatures” 3
“living thing” 3
“thin” 3
“kind” 2
“well fed” 2
“mortal” 1
Genesis 1
- 6:3 …forever for he is mortal his days shall be…
“circumcised them” 1
Genesis 1
- 17:23 …members of Abraham’s household and he circumcised them just as God had…
“when he was circumcised” 1
Genesis 1
- 17:24 …ninety nine years old when he was circumcised
“like the rest of his skin” 1
Exodus 1
- 4:7 …out it was restored like the rest of his skin
“ordinary man” 1
Exodus 1
- 30:32 …be used to anoint an ordinary man and you must not…
“undergarments” 1
Leviticus 1
- 6:10 …linen robe and linen undergarments and he shall remove…
“any meat” 1
Leviticus 1
- 7:17 But any meat of the sacrifice remaining…
“any other meat” 1
Leviticus 1
- 7:19 …burned up As for any other meat anyone who is ceremonially…
“as for” 1
Leviticus 1
- 7:19 …to be burned up As for any other meat anyone…
“any of the meat” 1
Leviticus 1
- 7:21 …thing and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering…
“than the skin” 1
Leviticus 1
- 13:3 …appears to be deeper than the skin it is a skin…
“skin disease” 1
Leviticus 1
- 13:11 …it is a chronic skin disease and the priest must…
“someone’s skin” 1
Leviticus 1
- 13:18 …When a boil appears on someone’s skin and it heals…
“bodily” 1
Leviticus 1
- 15:2 …When any man has a bodily discharge the discharge is…
“whether his body” 1
Leviticus 1
- 15:3 …is from his discharge whether his body allows the discharge to…
“close relative” 1
Leviticus 1
- 18:6 …are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations…
“any close relative” 1
Leviticus 1
- 25:49 …uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may…
“and” 1
Leviticus 1
- 26:29 …of your own sons and daughters…
“can i get meat” 1
Numbers 1
- 11:13 …Where can I get meat for all these people…
“womb” 1
Numbers 1
- 18:15 …The firstborn of every womb whether man or beast…
“it” 1
Deuteronomy 1
- 12:20 …meat you may eat it whenever you want…
“am your own flesh” 1
Judges 1
- 9:2 …man Remember that I am your own flesh and blood…
“while the meat” 1
1 Samuel 1
- 2:13 …three pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling…
“some meat” 1
1 Samuel 1
- 2:15 …sacrificing Give the priest some meat to roast because he…
“morning” 1
1 Kings 1
- 17:6 …him bread and meat in the morning and evening and he…
“became like that” 1
2 Kings 1
- 5:14 …his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child…
“just like our countrymen” 1
Nehemiah 1
- 5:5 …We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children yet…
“do i put myself” 1
Job 1
- 13:14 …Why do I put myself at risk and take…
“own body” 1
Job 1
- 14:22 …feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for…
“yet in my flesh” 1
Job 1
- 19:26 …skin has been destroyed yet in my flesh I will see God…
“there” 1
Job 1
- 31:31 …have not said Who is there who has not had…
“remains in my body” 1
Psalms 1
- 38:7 …pain and no soundness remains in my body
“can man” 1
Psalms 1
- 56:4 …not be afraid What can man do to me…
“when your flesh” 1
Proverbs 1
- 5:11 …life you will groan when your flesh and your body are…
“themselves on meat” 1
Proverbs 1
- 23:20 …much wine or gorge themselves on meat
“cheer my body” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 2:3 …I sought to cheer my body with wine and to…
“cause your flesh” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 5:6 …not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin and do…
“humanity” 1
Isaiah 1
- 40:5 …be revealed and all humanity together will see it…
“own flesh and blood” 1
Isaiah 1
- 58:7 …not to turn away from your own flesh and blood
“meat yourselves” 1
Jeremiah 1
- 7:21 …other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves
“mere flesh” 1
Jeremiah 1
- 17:5 …in mankind who makes mere flesh his strength and turns…
Not matched to an English word 1
Jeremiah 1
“living creature” 1
Jeremiah 1
- 45:5 …bring disaster on every living creature declares the LORD but…
“lustful” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 16:26 …You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors the Egyptians and…
“everyone” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 21:4 …will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north…
“genitals” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 23:20 …after their lovers whose genitals were like those of…
“like those” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 23:20 …their lovers whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose…
“meat well” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 24:10 …kindle the fire cook the meat well and mix in the…
“heart” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 36:26 …stone and give you a heart of flesh…
“make flesh” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 37:6 …attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and…
“better nourished” 1
Daniel 1
- 1:15 …days they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young…
“like meat” 1
Micah 1
- 3:3 …for the cooking pot like meat in a cauldron…
The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.