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koilia G2836

κοιλία (koilia) means “belly/womb/stomach” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

κοιλία Greek · G2836 23 tagged occurrences in 22 verses

Pronunciation guide: koy-lee'-ah Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2836

κοιλία · koilia · belly/womb/stomach

κοιλία, -ας, ἡ (κοῖλος, hollow), [in LXX chiefly for בֶּטֶן, מֵעֶה, קֶרֶב, Deu.7:13, 2Ki.7:12, Gen.41:21, al.; also (Job.3:11 10:18 31:15 38:8) for רֶחֶם ;] 1. the belly (stomach or intestines or both): Mat.12:40 15:17, Mrk.7:19, Luk.15:16, Rom.16:18, 1Co.6:13, Php.3:19, Rev.10:9-10. 2. (As often in LXX) the womb: Luk.1:41-42, 44 2:21 11:27 23:29, Jhn.3:4; ἐκ κ. μητρός (cf. Psa.22:11, Job.1:21, al.), Mat.19:12, Luk.1:15, Act.3:2 14:8, Gal.1:15. 3. Metaphorical (as Heb. בֶּטֶן, cf. Job.15:35, Pro.20:27, Sir.19:12), of the heart: Jhn.7:38.† (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

belly, abdomen, heart, a general term covering any organ in the abdomen, e.g. stomach, womb; met: the inner man.

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How translators render G2836

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
womb 7
stomach 5
belly 3
birth 2
appetites 1
stomach bitter 1
vvv 1
within 1
wombs 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
womb 9
belly 7
the belly 3
the womb 2
for the belly 1
of 1
the wombs 1

Verses containing G2836

Page 1 of 1. 22 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Matthew 12:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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  2. Matthew 15:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?

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  3. Matthew 19:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

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  4. Mark 7:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)

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  5. Luke 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

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  6. Luke 1:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

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  7. Luke 1:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In a loud voice she exclaimed, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

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  8. Luke 1:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

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  9. Luke 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.

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  10. Luke 11:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”

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  11. Luke 15:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

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  12. Luke 23:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

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  13. John 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

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  14. John 7:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

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  15. Acts 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.

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  16. Acts 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.

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  17. Romans 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

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  18. 1 Corinthians 6:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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  19. Galatians 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

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  20. Philippians 3:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

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  21. Revelation 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

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  22. Revelation 10:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.

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