BELLY

bel'-i: gachon = "the external abdomen" (Genesis 3:14 Leviticus 11:42). qobhah = "the abdominal cavity" (Numbers 25:8 the American Standard Revised Version "body"). beTen = "the internal abdomen," "the womb" (1 Kings 7:20 Job 15:2, 35 the King James Version; Job 20:15, 23; Job 40:16 Psalm 17, 14 Proverbs 13:25; Proverbs 18:20 Jeremiah 1:5 Ezekiel 3:3); also figuratively "the internal regions," "the body of anything" (Jonah 2:2). me`eh = "intestines," "abdomen" (Daniel 2:32 Jonah 1:17; Jonah 2:1, 2). In the New Testament koilia = "a cavity," espec ially the abdominal (Matthew 12:40; Matthew 15:17 Mark 7:19); the seat of appetite and of the carnal affections (Romans 16:18 1 Corinthians 6:13 Philippians 3:19 Revelation 10:9, 10); the innermost of the soul (the American Revised Version, margin John 7:38).

Frank E. Hirsch