בֶּטֶןbeṭen/beh'-ten/
HebrewH99072 occurrences (KJV)
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
KJV renders it: belly, body, [phrase] as they be born, [phrase] within, womb.
Where it appears
- Gen 25:23Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”
- Gen 25:24When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
- Gen 30:2Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
- Gen 38:27In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.
- Num 5:21then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
- Num 5:22and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
- Num 5:27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
- Deut 7:13He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deut 28:4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
- Deut 28:11Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deut 28:18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
- Deut 28:53You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
- Deut 30:9Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
- Judg 3:21Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:
- Judg 3:22and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
- Judg 13:5for, behold, you shall conceive, and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
- Judg 13:7but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
- Judg 16:17He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
- 1 Kgs 7:20There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital.
- Job 1:21He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
- Job 3:10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
- Job 3:11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
- Job 10:19I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 15:2“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
- Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
- Job 19:17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
- Job 20:15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
- Job 20:20“Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
- Job 20:23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
- Job 31:15Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
- Job 31:18(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);
- Job 32:18For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
- Job 32:19Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
- Job 38:29Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
- Job 40:16Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.
- Ps 17:14from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
- Ps 22:9But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
- Ps 22:10I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.
- Ps 31:9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
- Ps 44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.
- Ps 58:3The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
- Ps 71:6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
- Ps 127:3Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Ps 132:11Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
- Ps 139:13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
- Prov 13:25The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
- Prov 18:8The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
- Prov 18:20A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
- Prov 20:27The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
- Prov 20:30Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
- Prov 22:18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
- Prov 26:22The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
- Prov 31:2“Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!
- Eccl 5:15As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
- Eccl 11:5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
- Song 7:2Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
- Isa 13:18Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
- Isa 44:2This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
- Isa 44:24Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
- Isa 46:3“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
- Isa 48:8Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
- Isa 49:1Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
- Isa 49:5Now Yahweh says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.
- Isa 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
- Jer 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
- Ezek 3:3He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
- Hos 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
- Hos 9:16Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
- Hos 12:3In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
- Jonah 2:2He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
- Mic 6:7Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
- Hab 3:16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.