Belly

bel'-i: gachon = "the external abdomen" (Gen 3:14; Lev 11:42). qobhah = "the abdominal cavity" (Num 25:8 the American Standard Revised Version "body"). beTen = "the internal abdomen," "the womb" (1 Kgs 7:20; Job 15:2; Job 15:35 the King James Version; Job 20:15; Job 20:23; Job 40:16; Job 40:17; Job 40:14; Prov 13:25; Prov 18:20; Jer 1:5; Ezek 3:3); also figuratively "the internal regions," "the body of anything" (Jonah 2:2). me`eh = "intestines," "abdomen" (Dan 2:32; Jonah 1:17; Jonah 2:1; Jonah 2:2). In the New Testament koilia = "a cavity," espec ially the abdominal (Matt 12:40; Matt 15:17; Mark 7:19); the seat of appetite and of the carnal affections (Rom 16:18; 1 Cor 6:13; Phil 3:19; Rev 10:9; Rev 10:10); the innermost of the soul (the American Revised Version, margin John 7:38).

Frank E. Hirsch