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γαστήρ

gastḗr · G1064 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. belly, stomach, womb

    The inward parts of the body, either the digestive system (as in γαστέρες ἀργαί, literally ‘lazy bellies,’ but meaning ‘gluttons’) or the womb (in set phrases such as συλλαμβάνω ἐν γαστρί ‘to conceive’; ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχω ‘be pregnant’ and elsewhere)

    Examples

    Luke 1:31 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.

  2. glutton

    (A figurative extension of meaning of γαστήρ ‘belly,’) A person who habitually eats excessively

    Examples

    Titus 1:12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

  3. pregnant, to be pregnant

    (An idiom, literally: to have in the womb) To be in a state of pregnancy

    Examples

    Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

    Matthew 24:19 “But woe to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

    Mark 13:17 “But woe to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
בֶּטֶן beṭen · H990 · belly, womb, stomach
בֶּטֶן (beṭen, H990) is the standard Hebrew equivalent for γαστήρ (gastḗr, G1064), both denoting the belly/abdomen, womb, or stomach, with shared semantic range including anatomical and figurative uses (pregnancy, appetite).
Semantic domains 3 entries
Glutton23.19
Used figuratively of excessive appetite as a moral fault, drawn from the same broad range of bodily reference as the entries below.
Pregnant, to be pregnant23.50
Used of the state of carrying a child, as of the women who are pregnant in the woe pronounced in Matthew 24:19 and Mark 13:17.
Belly, stomach, womb8.68
Used literally of the womb as the place of conception and birth, as of Mary conceiving in her womb in Luke 1:31 and the virgin who will conceive and give birth in Matthew 1:23.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γαστρός (poetic, γαστερος), ἡ, in Greek authors from Homer down; in the Sept. for בֶּטֶן;…
γαστρός (poetic, γαστερος), ἡ, in Greek authors from Homer down; in the Sept. for בֶּטֶן;
1. the belly; by metonymy, of the whole for a part,
2. Latinuterus, the womb: ἐν γαστρί ἔχειν to be with child) see ἔχω, I. 1 b.): Mt 1:18, Mt 1:23; Mt 24:19; Mk 13:17; Lk 21:23; 1 Thess 5:3; Rev 12:2; (in the Sept. for הָרָה, Gen 16:4; Gen 38:25; Isa 7:14, etc.; Herodotus 3, 32 and vit. Homer 2; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 18, p. 105; 3, 32, p. 177; Pausanias, Herodian, others); συλλαμβάνεσθαι ἐν γαστρί to conceive, become pregnant, Lk 1:31.
3. the stomach; by synecdoche a glutton, gormandizer, a man who is as it were all stomach, Hesiod theog. 26 (so also γάστρις, Aristophanes av. 1604; Aelian v. h. 1, 28; and Latinventer in Lucil. sat. 2, 24 edition Gerl. 'vivite ventres'): γαστέρες ἀργαί, Tit 1:12; see ἀργός, b.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Parts of the Body1 occurrenceEat, Drink1 occurrenceBirth, Procreation7 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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