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Strong's #2836: koilia (pronounced koy-lee'-ah)

from koilos ("hollow"); a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart:--belly, womb.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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koilia

1) the whole belly, the entire cavity

1a) the upper [i.e. stomach] and the lower belly are distinguished

2) the lower belly, the lower region, the receptacle of the excrement

3) the gullet

3a) to be given up to the pleasures of the palate, to gluttony

4) the womb, the place where the foetus is conceived and nourished until birth

4a) of the uterus of animals

5) the innermost part of a man, the soul, heart as the seat of thought, feeling, choice

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from koilos ("hollow" )

Citing in TDNT: 3:786, 446




Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

Matthew 12:40: "in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man"
Matthew 15:17: "goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?"
Matthew 19:12: "born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which"
Mark 7:19: "but into the belly, and goeth out into the"
Luke 1:15: "from his mother's womb."
Luke 1:41: "leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy"
Luke 1:42: "is the fruit of thy womb."
Luke 1:44: "leaped in my womb for joy."
Luke 2:21: "was conceived in the womb."
Luke 11:27: "unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps"
Luke 15:16: "he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that"
Luke 23:29: "are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and"
John 3:4: "into his mother's womb, and be born?"
John 7:38: "hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."
Acts 3:2: "from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily"
Acts 14:8: "from his mother's womb, who never had walked:"
Romans 16:18: "Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and"
1 Corinthians 6:13: "Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but"
1 Corinthians 6:13: "belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy"
Galatians 1:15: "from my mother's womb, and called me by his"
Philippians 3:19: "is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their"
Revelation 10:9: "it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but"
Revelation 10:10: "as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter."









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