STRONGS NUMBER H3770


Word Summary
kares: belly
Original Word: כְּרֵשׂ
Transliteration: kares
Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ace')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: belly
Meaning: the paunch, belly
Strong's Concordance
belly

By variation from qarac; the paunch or belly (as swelling out) -- belly.

see HEBREW qarac

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3770. kares

[כָּרֵשׂ‎] noun [masculine] belly (Late Hebrew כֶּרֶסid.; Aramaic כַּרְסָאid.; 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 כְּרֵשׂוֺJeremiah 51:34 of Nebuchadrezzar under figure of sea-monster.