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κοιλία
koilía · Greek · Strong's G2836 · 23 occurrences
The KJV renders 7 different Hebrew and Greek words as “belly”
What it means
a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart
from ("hollow");
How the KJV renders it
belly, womb
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“belly”
also renders gastḗr (G1064), gâchôwn (H1512), kᵉrês (H3770), mᵉʻâh (H4577), mêʻeh (H4578), qôbâh (H6897)
“womb”
also renders mḗtra (G3388), gastḗr (G1064), mêʻeh (H4578), racham (H7356), rechem (H7358)
Answers that weigh this word
- Was Jesus crucified on Wednesday or Friday?
- Are any foods forbidden to Christians today?
- Did Jesus descend into hell?
- Are the clean and unclean food laws of Leviticus 11 binding on Christians?
- Does the Bible forbid eating pork?
- Does Peter's vision in Acts 10 abolish the food laws?
Where it appears
23 occurrences in the Greek text, first 22 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 6:13 · N-DSF
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Acts 3:2 · N-GSF
A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
Acts 14:8 · N-GSF
At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
Galatians 1:15 · N-GSF
But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
John 3:4 · N-ASF
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
John 7:38 · N-GSF
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
Luke 1:15 N-GSFLuke 1:41 N-DSFLuke 1:42 N-GSFLuke 1:44 N-DSFLuke 2:21 N-DSFLuke 11:27 N-NSFLuke 15:16 N-ASFLuke 23:29 N-NPFMatthew 12:40 N-DSFMatthew 15:17 N-ASFMatthew 19:12 N-GSFMark 7:19 N-ASFPhilippians 3:19 N-NSFRevelation 10:9 N-ASFRevelation 10:10 N-NSFRomans 16:18 N-DSF
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