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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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:
Read in context →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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beṭen · beh'-ten
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
Strong's KJV usage: belly, body, as they be born, within, womb.
Strong's first: Numbers 5:21Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:16
Open full H990 profile →koilía · koy-lee'-ah
a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart
Strong's KJV usage: :--belly, womb.
Strong's first: Matthew 12:40Strong's last: Revelation 10:10
Open full G2836 profile →mêʻeh · may-aw'
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.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 5:14Strong's last: Jonah 2:1
Open full H4578 profile →gâchôwn · gaw-khone'
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
Open full H1512 profile →kᵉrês · ker-ace'
the paunch or belly (as swelling out)
Strong's KJV usage: belly.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 51:34Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:34
Open full H3770 profile →mᵉʻâh · meh-aw'
only in plural the bowels
Strong's KJV usage: belly.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:32Strong's last: Daniel 2:32
Open full H4577 profile →qôbâh · ko'-baw
the abdomen (as a cavity)
Strong's KJV usage: belly.
Strong's first: Numbers 25:8Strong's last: Numbers 25:8
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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:
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
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.
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.
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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.
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
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.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
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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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