αἷμα, ατος, τό,
[in LXX for דָּם;]
blood.
1. In the ordinary sense: Mk 5:25, Lk 8:43, 4422:44, Jo 19:34, Ac 15:20, 2921:25, Re 8:7, 811:616:3, 4, 619:13.
2. In special senses:
(a) of generation, origin, kinship (cl.): Jo 1:13 (v. MM, VGT, s.v.);
(b) as in OT (AR on Eph, 6:12), in the phrase σάρξ καὶ αἷ. (αἷ. κ. σ.), to indicate human nature as opp. to God and created spirits: Mt 16:17, I Co 15:50, Ga 1:16, Eph 6:12, He 2:14;
(c) of things in colour resembling blood: Ac 2:19, 20, Re 6:1214:18-20.
(d) of bloodshed, a bloody death (cl.): Mt 23:30, 3527:4, 6, 8, 24, 25, Lk 11:50, 5113:1, Ac 1:195:2818:620:2622:20, He 12:4, Re 6:1017:618:2419:2; αἷ. ἐκχέειν (Deiss., LAE, 428; MM, VGT, s.v., αἷ.), Ro 3:15, Re 16:6;
(e) of sacrificial blood, as an expiation: He 9:7, 12, 13, 18-22, 2510:411:2813:11; of the blood of Christ, Mt 26:28, Mk 14:24, Lk 22:20, Jo 6:53, 54, 56, Ac 20:28, Ro 3:255:9, I Co 10:1611:25, 27, Eph 1:72:13, Col 1:20, He 9:12, 1410:19, 2912:2413:20, I Pe 1:2, 19, I Jo 1:7 (cf. 5:6, 8), Re 1:55:97:1412:11. (Cremer, 69 f., 612 f.)†