King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H4578
Transliteration: meeh
Phonetic Spelling: (may-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: internal organs, inward parts, belly
Meaning: the intestines, the abdomen, sympathy, a vest, the stomach, the uterus, the heart
Word Summary
meeh: internal organs, inward parts, belly
Original Word: מֵעֶהTransliteration: meeh
Phonetic Spelling: (may-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: internal organs, inward parts, belly
Meaning: the intestines, the abdomen, sympathy, a vest, the stomach, the uterus, the heart
Strong's Concordance
belly, bowels, heart, womb From an unused root probably meaning to be soft; used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extens. The stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively) -- belly, bowels, X heart, womb.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4578. meeh
[מֵעֶה] noun masculineIsaiah 16:11 only
plural internal organs, inward parts (intestines, bowels), belly (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic מַעֲיָא מְעָא,, , ; Arabic ; Ethiopic ; — on form compare LagBN 156 BaZMG xiii. 1888, 345); — plural [מֵעִים] construct מְעֵי Psalm 71:6 3t.; suffix מֵעַי 2 Samuel 16:11 9t., מֵעָ֑י Psalm 22:15; 40:9; מֵעֶיךָ Genesis 15:4 6t.; מֵעַיִךְ 25:23; Numbers 5:22; מֵעָיו 2 Samuel 20:10 5t.; מֵעֵיהֶם Ezekiel 7:19; —
1 literally:
a. אַ֫רְצָה מֵעָיו וַיִּשְׁמֹּךְ 2 Samuel 20:10 and he poured out his inward parts on the ground (through a wound); compare מ ׳מַחֲלֵה2 Chronicles 21:15, 18, מ ׳יָָֽצְאוּ 21:15; 21:19.
b. as digestive organs, but without precision, nearly = stomach, belly, Job 20:14; Ezekiel 3:3 ("" בֶּטֶן), 7:19 ("" נֶפֶשׁ; both with מָלֵא), Numbers 5:22; so of fish that swallowed Jonah Jonah 2:1; 2:2.
2 source of procreation: ׳מִמּ יצא אשׁר (said of offspring) Genesis 15:4 (JE), 2 Samuel 7:12 ("" זַרְעֲךָ), 16:11; מ ׳צֶאֱצָאֵי Isaiah 48:19 ("" id.); מ ׳מִיצִיאֵי2 Chronicles 32:21.
3 = womb, יִמָּרֵ֑דוּ מִמֵּעַיִח לְאֻמִּים שְׁנֵי Genesis 25:23 (J; "" בֶּטֶן), compare Isaiah 49:1 ("" id.), Psalm 71:6 ("" id.), Ruth 1:11.
4 in General = inwards, inward part, מ בְּתוֺךְ נָמֵס ֗֗֗ ׳לִבִּי Psalm 22:15, compare מ בְּתוֺךְ ׳תּוֺרָֽתְךָ 40:9.
5 figurative = seat of emotions: pity, Isaiah 16:11 ("" קֶרֶב); of God's compassion, Jeremiah 31:20 ("" רחם; in both subject of verb הָמוּ); מֵעֶיךָ הֲמוֺן Isaiah 63:15 ("" רַחֲמֶיךָ); distress, Jeremiah 4:19 (twice in verse) ("" חֳמַרְמָרוּ מֵעַי לֵב, Lamentations 1:20 ("" לֵב), 2:11 ("" כָּבֵד liver); רֻתְּחוּ מֵעַי Job 30:27 (dubious, see Bu); love, עָלָיו הָמוּ מֵעַי Song of Solomon 5:4.
6 the external belly, שֵׁן עֶשֶׁת מֵעָיו Song of Solomon 5:14.