English-Finnish translations for flesh

  • lihaJäsen Staes totesi jo varsin osuvasti, että liha on heikko. Mr Staes has already described it aptly: the flesh is weak. Nähdessään naisen ensimmäistä kertaa mies lausuu Raamatun ensimmäisen runon: "Tämä on luu minun luistani ja liha minun lihastani. And man, seeing woman for the first time, utters the first poem in the Bible: 'Now I have found bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. Tämä ilmenee osuvasti sananparresta: henki on vahva mutta liha heikko. This is aptly reflected in the saying to the effect that the spirit is willing, but the flesh weak.
  • malto
  • hedelmäliha
  • iho

Definition of flesh

  • The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat
  • The skin of a human or animal
  • Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish
  • The human body as a physical entity
  • The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul
  • The evil and corrupting principle working in man
  • Tenderness of feeling; gentleness
  • Kindred; stock; race
  • A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin
  • To reward with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train to have an appetite for flesh
  • To bury in flesh
  • To inure or habituate someone or a given practice.
  • To glut
  • To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather

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