'Body' in the Bible
(Now having bought a piece of ground with the money paid for his wickedness he fell there with his face downwards, and, his body bursting open, he became disembowelled.
For this reason my heart is glad and my tongue exults. My body also shall rest in hope.
with prophetic foresight he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, to the effect that He was not left forsaken in the Unseen World, nor did His body undergo decay.
The younger men, however, rose, and wrapping the body up, carried it out and buried it.
Years ago Theudas appeared, professing to be a person of importance, and a body of men, some four hundred in number, joined him. He was killed, and all his followers were dispersed and annihilated.
So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, "It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of God's Message and minister at tables.
Upon this, with a loud outcry they stopped their ears, rushed upon Stephen in a body,
But, as it happened, just at that time she was taken ill and died. After washing her body they laid it out in a room upstairs.
Peter, however, putting every one out of the room, knelt down and prayed, and then turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, rise." Dorcas at once opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, sat up.