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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Belly

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

49exact KJV occurrences 38Old Testament 11New Testament 23books containing the word 7mapped Strong's IDs 48occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 3:14

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 10:10

And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where belly appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4578
מֵעֶה

mêʻeh · may-aw'

3 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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)

Strong's KJV usage: belly, bowels, × heart, womb.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Song of Solomon 5:14Strong's last: Jonah 2:1

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HebrewH1512
גָּחוֹן

gâchôwn · gaw-khone'

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

the external abdomen, belly (as the source of the faetus)

Strong's KJV usage: belly.

Strong's first: Genesis 3:14Strong's last: Leviticus 11:42

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AramaicH4577
מְעָה

mᵉʻâh · meh-aw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

only in plural the bowels

Strong's KJV usage: belly.

Strong's first: Daniel 2:32Strong's last: Daniel 2:32

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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49 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 3:14
H1512

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Leviticus 11:42
H1512

Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Numbers 5:21
H990

Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

Numbers 5:22
H990

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

Numbers 5:27
H990

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Numbers 25:8
H6897

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.

Judges 3:21
H990

And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

Judges 3:22
H990

And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

1 Kings 7:20
H990

And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

Job 3:11
H990

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Job 15:2
H990

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 15:35
H990

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Job 20:15
H990

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Job 20:20
H990

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

Job 20:23
H990

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

Job 32:19
H990

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

Job 40:16
H990

Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

Psalms 17:14
H990

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Psalms 22:10
H990

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Psalms 31:9
H990

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

Psalms 44:25
H990

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Proverbs 13:25
H990

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

Proverbs 18:8
H990

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Proverbs 18:20
H990

A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

Proverbs 20:27
H990

The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

belly

BEL'LY, noun

1. That part of the human body which extends from the breast to the thighs, containing the bowels. It is called also the abdomen or lower belly to distinguish it from the head and breast, which are sometimes called bellies, from their cavity.

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.

5. The part of any thing which resembles the human belly in protuberance or cavity, as of a harp or a bottle.

6. Any hollow inclosed place; as the belly of hell, in Jonah.

7. In scripture, belly is used for the heart. Proverbs 18:8. 20.30.John 7:38. Carnal lusts, sensual pleasure. Romans 16:18. Philippians 3:19:19. The whole man. Titus 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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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