Belly
מְעָאStrong’s H4577meah (me-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Meah is the Aramaic word usually translated “belli its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,”
Meaning
- External belly, abdomen
How it's translated
- belli its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
מְעָא meah · belly
external belly, abdomen Aramaic of me.eh (מֵעֶה "belly" H4578)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.