Word

כְּרֵשׂ

kᵉrês · H3770 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. stomach

    Inner organ containing the food on its way to be digested further

    Examples

    Jeremiah 51:34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, He has set me down like an empty vessel; He has swallowed me like a monster, He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me away.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 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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Near synonyms 2 words
בֶּטֶן beṭen · H990 · belly, womb, stomach
The most common Hebrew term for belly/abdomen/womb; semantically overlaps with כְּרֵשׂ as both denote the belly or abdominal region.
מֵעֶה mêʻeh · H4578 · bowels, interior, belly
Refers to the internal organs, bowels, or belly region; often used for the visceral/abdominal area similar to כְּרֵשׂ.
In the other Testament 1 word
κοιλία koilía · G2836 · belly, internal organs, womb
The standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew terms denoting the belly or abdomen; used in LXX to translate various Hebrew terms for belly/stomach/womb.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3770. kares [כָּרֵשׂ] noun [masculine] belly (Late Hebrew כֶּרֶס id.; Aramaic כַּרְסָא…
H3770. kares
[כָּרֵשׂ] noun [masculine] belly (Late Hebrew כֶּרֶס id.; Aramaic כַּרְסָא id.; Mandean כארסא כראס,, uterus, NöM 151, 157; Arabic Ethiopic wrinkled or folded stomach of cud-chewing animals; compare LagBN 20, 44; Assyrian karšu, body, belly); — only suffix כְּרֵשׂוֺ Jer 51:34 of Nebuchadrezzar under figure of sea-monster.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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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