Strong's #2570: chomesh (pronounced kho'-mesh)

from an unused root probably meaning, to be stout; the abdomen (as obese):--fifth (rib).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chômesh

1) belly, abdomen, fifth ribs

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root probably meaning, to be stout

Same Word by TWOT Number: 687a

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

2 Samuel 2:23: "the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind"
2 Samuel 3:27: "with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel"
2 Samuel 4:6: "wheat; him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped."
2 Samuel 20:10: "hand: him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck"