Genesis 15:4
And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
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Bowels
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1 John 3:17
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
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5 occurrences in 4 verses.
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Genesis
33 verses
Numbers
11 verses
2 Samuel
33 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
2 Chronicles
54 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
33 verses
Song of Solomon
11 verses
Isaiah
44 verses
Jeremiah
32 verses
Lamentations
22 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Acts
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Philippians
22 verses
Colossians
11 verses
Philemon
33 verses
1 John
11 verses
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מֵעֶה
mêʻeh · may-aw'
27 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
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: Genesis 15:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 7:19
Open full H4578 profile →σπλάγχνον
splánchnon · splangkh'-non
9 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
an intestine (plural); figuratively, pity or sympathy
Strong's KJV usage: :--bowels, inward affection, + tender mercy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 1:18Strong's last: 1 John 3:17
Open full G4698 profile →רַחַם
racham · rakh'-am
2 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden
Strong's KJV usage: bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 43:30Strong's last: 1 Kings 3:26
Open full H7356 profile →קֶרֶב
qereb · keh'-reb
1 times translated as this KJV form225 total Strong's occurrences
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
Strong's KJV usage: × among, × before, bowels, × unto charge, eat (up), × heart, × him, × in, inward (× -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, out of, purtenance, × therein, × through, × within self.
Strong's first: Psalms 109:18Strong's last: Psalms 109:18
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H4578
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
H4578
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
H4578
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
H4578
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
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bowels
BOW'ELS, noun plural
1. The intestines of an animal; the entrails, especially of man. The heart. 2 Corinthians 6:12.
2. The interior part of any thing; as the bowels of the earth.
3. The seat of pity or kindness; hence, tenderness, compassion, a scriptural sense.
Bowel, in the singular, is sometimes used for gut.
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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