BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4578
me.eh — belly
1) internal organs, inward parts, bowels, intestines, belly 1a) inward parts 1b) digestive organs 1c) organs of procreation, womb 1d) place of emotions or distress or love (fig.) 1e) external belly Aramaic equivalent: me.ah (מְעָא "belly" H4577)
28 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3894
la.chum — intestine
1) intestines, bowels 1a) meaning uncertain 2) (CLBL) food, something eaten
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7008
egkata — insides
the inwards, entrails, bowels , Lat. intestina, (Homer) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7266
enteron — innards
an intestine, piece of gut , ἔντερον οἰός a string of sheep's gut , (Odyssey by Homer):—;mostly in plural ἔντερα, the guts, bowels , (Iliad by Homer), attic (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(Phil. 1:8; 2:1; Col. 3:12), compassionate feelings; R.V., “tender mercies.”
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
