מְעָה
mᵉʻâh · H4577 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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belly, middle, waist
The part of the human body between the chest and the legs
ExamplesDaniel 2:32 “The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
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
- הוּhis 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְחָשׁbrass 1
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
- בֶּטֶן is a common Hebrew synonym for belly/abdomen, used both for the physical organ and metaphorically for the womb or inner being; it is not cognate with מְעָה but overlaps semantically as a term for the belly/stomach area.
- כְּרֵשׂ kᵉrês · H3770 · stomach
- כֶּרֶשׂ refers to the belly or abdomen, particularly the lower belly or paunch; it is a distinct lexeme that shares the semantic field of referring to the abdominal region.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κοιλία koilía · G2836 · belly, internal organs, womb
- κοιλία is the standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew words denoting the belly or abdomen, used both literally for the digestive organ and metaphorically for the womb or inner parts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- Daniel 2:32 describes the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, “the head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze.”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4577. meah or mea [מְעָא] noun [masculine] plural external belly (see Biblical Hebrew […
or mea [מְעָא] noun [masculine] plural external belly (see Biblical Hebrew [ מֵעֶה] 6); — suffix מְע֫וֺהִי Dan 2:32 (of image in vision).
מַעֲבַד see עבד. מְע֫וֺהִר see [מְעָא]. above,
מֵעָל see עלל.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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