body

Everyday

1. All of a person or an animal: head, arms, legs and everything inside. tree →
2. The main part of a person or animal, not the head, arms or legs. tree →
3. A dead person or animal. tree →
4. The main part of something, like the body of a letter or a car. tree →
5. An object or a group: a body of water, a heavenly body, the student body. tree →

In the lessons

In science, the human body has parts and systems (bones, muscles, heart, lungs, brain) that work together; healthy food, sleep and exercise keep it strong. In safety: your body belongs to you; private parts are private. In science, "body" can mean any object, like a planet. Phrases: body parts, body of water, human body, body language, somebody, nobody.

Examples

• The heart pumps blood around the body. tree →
• Exercise keeps your body strong. tree →
• The body of an insect has three parts. tree →
• Your body belongs to you. tree →
• A lake is a body of water. tree →
• Write the body of your letter here. tree →
• Drink water to help your body cool down. tree →
• The car's body was painted red. tree →
• She was wriggling her body in distress. tree →

Note

Plural "bodies" (y → ies). "Somebody", "nobody", "anybody", "everybody" mean a person. "Body language" means messages we send with face and movement. Your body needs sleep to grow.

In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it often means a dead body, which makes a person unclean. It also means the living body of a person, as in Psalms and Proverbs, and "of his body" means one's own children.

Interpretation. Touching a dead body brings the strongest uncleanness, so priests and Nazirites must avoid it. Tradition sees this as honouring life as holy and keeping death away from the place of worship.

Examples

• He that toucheth the dead, even any man's dead body, shall be unclean seven days; (Torah NUM.19.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; (Torah LEV.21.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body. (Torah NUM.6.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound. (Writings PSA.73.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, (Writings PRO.5.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives. (Prophets JDG.8.30, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Plural "bodies" (y → ies). "Somebody", "nobody", "anybody", "everybody" mean a person. "Body language" means messages we send with face and movement. Your body needs sleep to grow.