one flesh
3
8.6
- noun
- Literature
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una sola carne
- So they are no longer two but one flesh.
- become one flesh
- two become one flesh
- one flesh union
Examples
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For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother... ...and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
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"Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh."
Blog text (12) -
Man and wife is one flesh.
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And they shall be one flesh!
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Originally, God wanted male and female to fashion a union, one flesh.
Academic text (2004) -
And the two become one flesh.
Blog text (18) -
The second story of human origins appears in the next chapter of Genesis, where a similar event is described as the two becoming "one flesh."
Academic text (2000) -
In marriage, they are thought to be one flesh, united in every way.
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The couple's love was so deep that they truly felt like one flesh.
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When they vowed to love each other, they became one flesh in spirit and heart.
Antonyms
How Close
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'one' and 'flesh' transparently suggest a single bodily unit, so a learner can infer a basic sense of physical unity. However, the phrase is a metaphorical/biblical idiom specifically used to describe marital or intimate union and carries cultural-register information that may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner, so the transparency is partial.
Etymology
One flesh comes from the Bible, where married people were pictured as joining bodies and becoming one in flesh in 'marriage'. So today one flesh means a very close union, when two people are seen as a single unit.