Belly
בֶּ֫טֶןStrong’s H0990beten (be-ten)
Appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beten is the Hebrew word usually translated “from womb”, “womb your” and “belly”. It appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.”
Meaning
- Belly, womb, bodybelly, abdomen · womb
How it's translated
- from womb 7
- womb your 6
- belly 5
- belly your 4
- from womb of 4
- belly my 4
- the womb 3
- womb my 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 16
- Psalms 10
- Proverbs 8
- Isaiah 8
- Deuteronomy 6
- Judges 5
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:24And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
- Genesis 30:2And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
- Genesis 38:27And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
- Numbers 5:21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
- Numbers 5:22And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
- Numbers 5:27And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
All 72 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בֶּ֫טֶן beten · belly
: abdomen 1) belly, womb, body 1a) belly, abdomen 1a1) as seat of hunger 1a2) as seat of mental faculties 1a3) of depth of Sheol (fig.) 1b) womb
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “belly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEL'LY, noun
- That part of the human body which extends from the breast to the thighs, containing the bowels.
- The part of a beast, corresponding to the human belly
- The womb. Jeremiah 1:5
- The receptacle of food; that which requires food, in opposition to the back.“Whose god is their belly” Philippians 3:19
All definitions and other forms of “belly”
- The part of any thing which resembles the human belly in protuberance or cavity, as of a harp or a bottle.
- Any hollow inclosed place; as the belly of hell, in Jonah.
- In scripture, belly is used for the heart. 20.30. Proverbs 18:8John 7:38Romans 16:18Philippians 3:19Titus 1:12
BEL'LY, verb transitive
To fill; to swell out.
BEL'LY, verb intransitive
To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; as bellying goblets; bellying canvas.
- To strut.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.