1 Corinthians 15:39

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one {G3303} [flesh] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ Πᾶσα σὰρξ ἡ αὐτὴ σάρξ: ἀλλὰ ἄλλη μὲν σὰρξ ἀνθρώπων, ἄλλη δὲ σὰρξ κτηνῶν, ἄλλη δὲ ἰχθύων, ἄλλη δὲ πτηνῶν.

Transliteration

Not all sarx the same sarx: but allē men sarx anthrōpōn, allē de sarx ktēnōn, allē de ichthyōn, allē de ptēnōn.

Grammar Details

*ou*: negative particle - not
*pasa*: nominative feminine singular - all/every
*sarx*: nominative feminine singular - flesh
*autē*: intensive pronoun, nominative feminine singular - same
*alla*: adversative conjunction - but
*allē*: adjective, nominative feminine singular - another/different
*men*: particle marking contrast - on the one hand
*anthrōpōn*: genitive masculine plural - of humans
*de*: contrastive particle - but/and
*ktēnōn*: genitive neuter plural - of cattle/animals
*ichthyōn*: genitive masculine plural - of fish
*ptēnōn*: genitive neuter plural - of birds

Word Meanings

*sarx*: flesh/body/physical nature
*anthrōpōn*: of humans/of mankind/of people
*ktēnōn*: of cattle/of beasts/of animals
*ichthyōn*: of fish/of water creatures
*ptēnōn*: of birds/of flying creatures

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 1:20-26 : 20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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