Strong's #990: beten (pronounced beh'-ten)
from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow; the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything:-- belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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beṭen
1) belly, womb, body
1a) belly, abdomen
1a1) as seat of hunger
1a2) as seat of mental faculties
1a3) of depth of Sheol (figuratively)
1b) womb
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow
Usage:
This word is used 72 times:
Proverbs 22:18: "it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips."
Proverbs 26:22: "and they into the innermost parts of the belly."
Proverbs 31:2: "my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?"
Ecclesiastes 5:15: "As he came forth of his mother's womb, womb, shall he return to go"
Ecclesiastes 11:5: "of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not"
Song of Solomon 7:2: "which wanteth liquor: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies."
Isaiah 13:18: "to pieces; and they shall have no on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare"
Isaiah 44:2: "the LORD that made thee from the womb, thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not,"
Isaiah 44:24: "the LORD, thy redeemer, thee from the womb, thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh"
Isaiah 46:3: "of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:"
Isaiah 48:8: "I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. from the womb."
Isaiah 49:1: "from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; me from the womb; from the bowels"
Isaiah 49:5: "saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again"
Isaiah 49:15: "her sucking child, that she should not have compassion of her womb? yea, they may forget,"
Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thou camest forth out of the womb"
Ezekiel 3:3: "unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with"
Hosea 9:11: "shall fly away like a bird, and from the womb, and from the womb, and from the conception."
Hosea 9:16: "they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb."
Hosea 12:3: "He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power God:"
Jonah 2:2: "by reason of mine affliction unto and he heard me; out of the belly me; out of the belly of hell cried"
Micah 6:7: "my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"
Habakkuk 3:16: "When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips at the voice: rottenness entered"
