Strong's #4578: me`ah (pronounced may-aw')
from an unused root probably meaning to be soft; used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extens. the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively):--belly, bowels, X heart, womb.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mê‛eh
1) internal organs, inward parts, bowels, intestines, belly
1a) inward parts
1b) digestive organs
1c) organs of procreation, womb
1d) place of emotions or distress or love (figuratively)
1e) external belly
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to be soft
Usage:
This word is used 32 times:
Genesis 15:4: "but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir."
Genesis 25:23: "and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;"
Numbers 5:22: "water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot:"
Ruth 1:11: "with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?"
2 Samuel 7:12: "after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom."
2 Samuel 16:11: "my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life:"
2 Samuel 20:10: "him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died."
2 Chronicles 21:15: "shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of"
2 Chronicles 21:15: "by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day"
2 Chronicles 21:18: "this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease."
2 Chronicles 21:19: "that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels"
2 Chronicles 32:21: "the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword."
Job 20:14: "Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within"
Job 30:27: " My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented"
Psalms 22:14: "like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels."
Psalms 40:8: "O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart."
Psalms 71:6: "from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually"
Song of Solomon 5:4: "his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for"
Song of Solomon 5:14: "rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires."
Isaiah 16:11: "Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh."
Isaiah 48:19: "also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off"
Isaiah 49:1: "from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother"
Isaiah 63:15: "and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward"
Jeremiah 4:19: " My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot"
Jeremiah 4:19: "My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot"
Jeremiah 31:20: "I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled"
Lamentations 1:20: "O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within"
Lamentations 2:11: "Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth,"
Ezekiel 3:3: "cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that"
Ezekiel 7:19: "their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity."
Jonah 1:17: "Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three"
Jonah 2:1: "the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,"
