מֵעֶה (me.eh) means “belly” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: may-aw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מֵעֶה · 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)
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from an unused root probably meaning to be soft; used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
KJV glosses: belly, bowels, [idiom] heart, womb.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| my heart | 4 |
| within | 3 |
| my anguish | 2 |
| your stomach | 2 |
| and spilled out his intestines | 1 |
| from inside | 1 |
| from the body | 1 |
| from within you | 1 |
| from your own body | 1 |
| his body | 1 |
| his intestines | 1 |
| in my womb | 1 |
| in the belly | 1 |
| me | 1 |
| my own flesh and blood | 1 |
| of the bowels | 1 |
| of your bowels | 1 |
| some of his own sons | 1 |
| their stomachs with wealth | 1 |
| womb | 1 |
| yet in his stomach | 1 |
| your bowels | 1 |
| your own body | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| my bowels | 5 |
| of thy bowels | 3 |
| his bowels | 2 |
| of my bowels | 2 |
| and my bowels | 1 |
| belly | 1 |
| bowels | 1 |
| from the bowels | 1 |
| from thy bowels | 1 |
| him in his bowels | 1 |
| him still therefore my bowels | 1 |
| his belly | 1 |
| in his bowels | 1 |
| in my womb | 1 |
| into thy bowels | 1 |
| my heart | 1 |
| of his own bowels | 1 |
| out of thine own bowels | 1 |
| out of thy bowels | 1 |
| their bowels | 1 |
| thy bowels | 1 |
| until thy bowels | 1 |
| was in the belly | 1 |
| wherefore my bowels | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 30 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
Read word by wordand He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Read word by wordMay this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
Read word by wordBut Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
Read word by wordAnd when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
Read word by wordThen David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
Read word by wordAmasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.
Read word by wordAnd day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
Read word by wordAfter all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
Read word by wordThis continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.
Read word by wordand the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
Read word by wordyet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
Read word by wordI am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
Read word by wordI am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.15
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 40.9
I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
Read word by wordMy beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
Read word by wordHis arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
Read word by wordTherefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
Read word by wordYour descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
Read word by wordListen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
Read word by wordLook down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
Read word by wordMy anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
Read word by wordIs not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordSee, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
Read word by wordMy eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Read word by word“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Read word by wordThey will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
Read word by wordNow the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.1
From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.2
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