Lexical Definition

‎בֶּטֶן‎ beṭen (beh'-ten) belly: abdomen ^H:N-F
from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow

belly, body, [phrase] as they be born, [phrase] within, womb.

• the belly, especially the womb
• also the bosom or body of anything

1) belly, womb, body
1a) belly, abdomen
1a1) as seat of hunger
1a2) as seat of mental faculties
1a3) of depth of Sheol (fig.)
1b) womb

See Greek: γαστήρ · καρδία · κοιλία · σπλάγχνον

Extended Information

• : abdomen

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎בֶ֫טֶן‎ noun feminine^{Num 5:25} belly, body, womb (Arabic ) — ‎׳‎‎בּ‎ absolute Judg 13:7 +; ‎בָּ֑טֶן‎ vJudg 13:5 +; construct ‎בֶּטֶן‎ Ps 139:13 +; suffix ‎בִּטְנִי‎ Job 3:10 +; ‎בִּטְנְךָ‎ Deut 7:13 +; ‎בִּטְנֵךְ‎ Gen 25:23 ‎בִּטְנוֺ‎ Job 15:2 +, etc.; —

1. a. belly, abdomen, of man Judg 3:21; Judg 3:22 of woman Num 5:21; Num 5:22; Num 5:27 as beautiful in form Song 7:3* as seat of hunger Prov 13:25 as eating Ezek 3:3 (|| ‎מֵעִים‎); compare Prov 18:20 (figurative); as seat of passion, avarice, etc. Job 20:20; Job 20:23 in figure of God's casting riches out of extortioner's belly Job 20:15 (|| ‎וַיְקִאֶנּוּ‎), compare also Ps 17:14 figurative of innermost part of man = inmost soul Prov 18:8 = Prov 26:22; Prov 20:27; Prov 20:30 (all ‎׳‎‎חַדְרֵי ב‎); as seat of intell. faculties (= English breast or bosom) Prov 22:18 (compare ‎מֵעִים‎ Ps 40:9*) Job 15:2; Job 15:35; Job 32:18, ‎רוּחַ בִּטְנִי‎ vJob 15:19 as trembling at theophany Hab 3:16.
b. belly of hippopotamus Job 40:16.
c. ‎בֶּטֶן שְׁאוֺל‎ Jonah 2:3* (Jonah's prayer: || ‎מְצוּלָה בִּלְבַכ יַמִּים‎).

2. body, opposed to soul Ps 31:10* (opposed to ‎נֶפֶשׁ‎), also Ps 44:26* (opposed to id.; — on this compare Zim^{Bp 71}).

3. womb Gen 25:23; Gen 25:24; Gen 38:27 (all J) Hos 12:4*; Job 10:19 (|| ‎רֶחֶם‎ vJob 10:18) Eccl 11:5; Job 31:15 ‎הֲלֹא בַבֶּטֶן‎ ‎עשֵֹׁנִי עָשָׂ֑הוּ‎ did not he that made me in the womb make him (|| ‎וַיְכֻנֶנּוּ בָּרֶחֶם אֶחָד‎); compare Ps 139:13 ‎תְּסֻכֵּנִי‎ ‎בְּבֶטֶן‎, & Jer 1:5 especially ‎׳‎‎פְּרִי ב‎ i.e. offspring Gen 30:2 (E) Ps 127:3; Isa 13:18; Prov 31:2 ‎בַּר בִּטְנִי‎ = my son (|| ‎בְּרִי‎) compare ‎בֶּןבִּֿטְנָהּ‎ Isa 49:15 of birth ‎יָצָא מִבֶּטֶן‎ Job 1:21; Job 3:11; Eccl 5:14* ‎בֶּטֶן‎ alone = birth Hos 9:11 (|| ‎לֵדָה‎, ‎הֵרָיוֺן‎), compare Figurative ‎מִבֶּטֶן מִי יָצָא הַקָּ֑רַח‎ Job 38:29 out of whose womb came the ice ? compare ‎לֹא סָגַר דַּלְתֵי בִּטְנִי‎ Job 3:10 i.e. of my (mother's) womb; ‎גָּחָה מִבֶּטֶן‎ take, draw out of the womb, subject ‎׳‎‎י‎ (i.e. cause to be born) Ps 22:10* ‎פְּרִי‎ ‎בֶטֶן‎used also of father Mic 6:7, compare Ps 132:11 (David as ancestor of Messianic King); Job 19:17 ‎בְּנֵי בִטְנִי‎ sons of my body, of doubtful interpretation, perhaps = sons of my (mother's) womb, compare Job 3:10 (Ges De), i.e. my brother or men of my clan RS^{K 33 f.}, others my sons (Ew), my grandsons (Di); also in addressing Israel As a whole (masculine suffix) Deut 7:13; Deut 28:4; Deut 28:11; Deut 28:18; Deut 28:53; Deut 30:9, compare ‎מַחֲמַדֵּי בִטְנָם‎ Hos 9:16 beloved ones of their womb; ‎(מִבֶּטֶן) מִןהַֿבֶּטֶן‎ = from birth Judg 13:5; Judg 13:7; Ps 58:4*; Ps 71:6, compare also Isa 44:2; Isa 44:24; Isa 46:3 (|| ‎רָחַ֑ם‎) Isa 48:8; Isa 49:1; Isa 49:5 ‎מִבֶּטֶן נִמִּי‎ id. Judg 16:17; Job 31:18; Ps 22:11* (|| ‎רֶחֶם‎).

4. architectural word of some rounded projection connected with the two pillars Jachin & Boaz 1Kgs 7:20 (Klo reads ‎הבית‎).

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