King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H990
Transliteration: beten
Phonetic Spelling: (beh'-ten)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: belly, body, womb
Meaning: the belly, the womb, the bosom, body of anything
Word Summary
beten: belly, body, womb
Original Word: בֶּטֶןTransliteration: beten
Phonetic Spelling: (beh'-ten)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: belly, body, womb
Meaning: the belly, the womb, the bosom, body of anything
Strong's Concordance
belly, body, as they be born, within, womb From an unused root probably meaning to be hollow; the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything -- belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H990. beten
I. בֶ֫טֶן noun feminineNumbers 5:25 belly, body, womb (Arabic ) — ׳בּ absolute Judges 13:7 +; בָּ֑טֶן 13:5 +; construct בֶּטֶן Psalm 139:13 +; suffix בִּטְנִי Job 3:10 +; בִּטְנְךָ Deuteronomy 7:13 +; בִּטְנֵךְ Genesis 25:23; בִּטְנוֺ Job 15:2 +, etc.; —
1. a. belly, abdomen, of man Judges 3:21-22, of woman Numbers 5:21-22, 27; as beautiful in form Cant 7:3; as seat of hunger Proverbs 13:25; as eating Ezekiel 3:3 ("" מֵעִים); compare Proverbs 18:20 (figurative); as seat of passion, avarice, etc. Job 20:20, 23; in figure of God's casting riches out of extortioner's belly 20:15 ("" וַיְקִאֶנּוּ), compare also Psalm 17:14; figurative of innermost part of man = inmost soul Proverbs 18:8 = 26:22; 20:27, 30 (all ב ׳חַדְרֵי); as seat of intell. faculties (= English breast or bosom) 22:18 (compare מֵעִים Psalm 40:9) Job 15:2; 15:35; 32:18, בִּטְנִי רוּחַ 15:19; as trembling at theophany Habakkuk 3:16.
b. belly of hippopotamus Job 40:16.
c. שְׁאוֺל בֶּטֶן Jonah 2:3 (Jonah's prayer: "" יַמִּים בִּלְבַכ מְצוּלָה).
2 body, opposed to soul Psalm 31:10 (opposed to נֶפֶשׁ), also 44:26 (opposed to id.; — on this compare ZimBp 71).
3 womb Genesis 25:23-24, 38:27 (all J) Hosea 12:4; Job 10:19 ("" רֶחֶם 10:18) Ecclesiastes 11:5; Job 31:15 עָשָׂ֑הוּ עשֵֹׁנִי בַבֶּטֶן הֲלֹא did not he that made me in the womb make him ("" אֶחָד בָּרֶחֶם וַיְכֻנֶנּוּ); compare Psalm 139:13 בְּבֶטֶן תְּסֻכֵּנִי, & Jeremiah 1:5; especially ב ׳מְּרִי i.e. offspring Genesis 30:2 (E) Psalm 127:3; Isaiah 13:18; Proverbs 31:2 בִּטְנִי בַּר = my son ("" בְּרִי) compare בֶּןבִּֿטְנָהּ Isaiah 49:15; of birth מִבֶּטֶן יָצָא Job 1:21; 3:11; Ecclesiastes 5:14; בֶּטֶן alone = birth Hosea 9:11 ("" הֵרָיוֺן לֵדָה,), compare Figurative הַקָּ֑רַח יָצָא מִי מִבֶּטֶן Job 38:29 out of whose womb came the ice ? compare בִּטְנִי דַּלְתֵי סָגַר לֹא 3:10 i.e. of my (mother's) womb; מִבֶּטֶן גָּחָה take, draw out of the womb, subject ׳י (i.e. cause to be born) Psalm 22:10; בֶטֶן מְּרִיused also of father Micah 6:7, compare Psalm 132:11 (David as ancestor of Messianic King); Job 19:17 בִטְנִי בְּנֵי sons of my body, of doubtful interpretation, perhaps = sons of my (mother's) womb, compare 3:10 (Ges De), i.e. my brother or men of my clan RSK 33 f., others my sons (Ew), my grandsons (Di); also in addressing Israel As a whole (masculine suffix) Deuteronomy 7:13; 28:4, 11, 18, 53; 30:9, compare בִטְנָם מַחֲמַדֵּי Hosea 9:16 beloved ones of their womb; מִןהַֿבֶּטֶן (מִבֶּטֶן) = from birth Judges 13:5, 7; Psalm 58:4; 71:6, compare also Isaiah 44:2, 24; 46:3 ("" רָחַ֑ם) 48:8; 49:1, 5; נִמִּי מִבֶּטֶן id. Judges 16:17; Job 31:18; Psalm 22:11 ("" רֶחֶם).
4 architectural word of some rounded projection connected with the two pillars Jachin & Boaz 1 Kings 7:20 (Klo reads הבית).