{"def":{"short":"the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively","long":["the body both of men or animals",["a dead body or corpse","the living body",["of animals"]],"the bodies of plants and of stars (heavenly bodies)","is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body",["so in the New Testament of the church"],"that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself"]},"deriv":"from G4982","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈso.mɑ","ipa_mod":"ˈsow.mɑ","sbl":"sōma","dic":"SOH-ma","dic_mod":"SOH-ma"},"see":["G4982"]}