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Belly

קֹבָהStrong’s H6897

qovah (qo-vah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Qovah is the Hebrew word usually translated “belly her”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.”
Numbers 25:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Stomach, belly, mawstomach (of sacrificial victim) · belly (of woman)
How it's translated
  • belly her 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    קֹבָה qovah · belly

    1) stomach, belly, maw 1a) stomach (of sacrificial victim) 1b) belly (of woman)

    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

    1. That part of the human body which extends from the breast to the thighs, containing the bowels.
    2. The part of a beast, corresponding to the human belly
    3. The womb. Jeremiah 1:5
    4. 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”
    1. The part of any thing which resembles the human belly in protuberance or cavity, as of a harp or a bottle.
    2. Any hollow inclosed place; as the belly of hell, in Jonah.
    3. 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.

      1. 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.