σώματος (somatos) in Colossians 2:11: Noun Genitive Singular Neuter

Noun: this word names a concrete reality, here a bodily reality, and it functions as a noun in the clause.

Genitive: this form usually marks a dependent relationship, such as source, content, description, or possession, and context must decide which is best.

Singular: this form is grammatically singular in this occurrence, so it presents one body-related referent or idea in view.

Neuter: this noun belongs to the neuter grammatical class, which is a language feature and does not by itself make a theological claim.

This occurrence of σώματος is tied to its immediate phrase or clause in Colossians 2:11. It helps describe what is being put off, namely the body connected with sin and flesh in this sentence, so the phrase carries a relational or descriptive force.

The genitive form is governed by the surrounding phrase and marks relation, description, source, or possession as the context decides. This form helps describe what is being put off, namely the body connected with sin and flesh in this sentence, so the phrase carries a relational or descriptive force.

It helps describe what is being put off, namely the body connected with sin and flesh in this sentence, so the phrase carries a relational or descriptive force.

It does not by itself say that the body is identical with sin, nor does it decide every theological detail of the phrase without the wider context.

High: The genitive body phrase describes what is put off in the spiritual-circumcision statement.

Genitive noun in the putting-off phrase. identifies the body-related object or sphere described as put off. Attached to the putting off of the body phrase. Governed by the action noun for putting off. The phrase is theologically sensitive, so body, sins, and flesh should be read together in context.

What is described as being put off in the phrase? The genitive identifies the body phrase further described by sins and flesh language.

Direct: The form directly supports of the body in the putting-off phrase.

The genitive does not decide by itself whether the phrase is literal, moral, or metaphorical in emphasis. Neuter grammatical gender is noun class and not a theological gender claim.

Body language is treated as proof that creation is evil: The form belongs to a sins-and-flesh removal phrase; the passage governs the theology.

The witness reads σώματος in Colossians 2:11 within the phrase τῆς ἀπεκδύσει τοῦ σώματος τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τῆς σαρκός.

The lemma σῶμα normally refers to a body, and here the lexicon summary allows a bodily sense without requiring a figurative reduction.

Its genitive form marks dependence in the phrase and points to the body as what is being stripped off, further described by the language of sins and flesh.

In this verse the grammar supports the idea that believers' circumcision in Christ includes a decisive putting off of the body of sins of the flesh.

This fits the broader biblical theme that Christ brings a real inward and covenantal transformation, while the body language keeps the statement concrete and embodied.

For teaching, the form helps readers hear a relational phrase about removal or stripping off, not a standalone definition of body apart from context.

Do not derive from the genitive alone a final answer about whether the phrase is purely literal, purely moral, or purely metaphorical.