Topic
Belly
36 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 15:2ISBE · Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- Job 15:35ISBE · Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- Proverbs 18:20ISBE · Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
- Proverbs 20:27Easton · Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
- Jonah 2:2Easton · ISBE
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
- John 7:38ISBE · Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
- Romans 16:18Easton · ISBE
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
- Philippians 3:19Easton · ISBE
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
- Titus 1:12Easton · Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
- Genesis 3:14ISBE
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
- Leviticus 11:42ISBE
Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
- Numbers 25:8ISBE
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Show 24 more
- 1 Kings 7:20 ISBE
- Job 20:15 ISBE
- Job 20:20 Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
- Job 20:23 ISBE
- Job 40:16 ISBE
- Psalms 14:1–7 ISBE
- Psalms 17:1–15 ISBE
- Psalms 44:25 Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
- Proverbs 13:25 ISBE
- Proverbs 18:8 Easton
- Proverbs 20:30 Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
- Proverbs 22:18 Easton
- Jeremiah 1:5 ISBE
- Ezekiel 3:3 ISBE
- Daniel 2:32 ISBE
- Jonah 1:17 ISBE
- Jonah 2:1 ISBE
- Habakkuk 3:16 Nave Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
- Matthew 12:40 ISBE
- Matthew 15:17 ISBE
- Mark 7:19 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 ISBE
- Revelation 10:9 ISBE
- Revelation 10:10 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 7 references
The seat of the carnal affections (Titus 1:12; Phil. 3:19; Rom. 16:18). The word is used symbolically for the heart (Prov. 18:8; 20:27; 22:18, marg.). The “belly of hell” signifies the grave or underworld (Jonah 2:2).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 29 references
bel'-i: gachon = "the external abdomen" (Ge 3:14; Le 11:42). qobhah = "the abdominal cavity" (Nu 25:8 the American Standard Revised Version "body"). beTen = "the internal abdomen," "the womb" (1Ki 7:20; Job 15:2,35 the King James Version; Job 20:15,23; 40:16; Ps 17,14; Pr 13:25; 18:20; Jer 1:5; Eze 3:3); also figuratively "the internal regions," "the body of anything" (Jon 2:2). me`eh = "intestines," "abdomen" (Da 2:32; Jon 1:17; 2:1,2). In the New Testament koilia = "a cavity," espec ially the abdominal (Mt 12:40; 15:17; Mr 7:19); the seat of appetite and of the carnal affections (Ro 16:18; 1Co 6:13; Php 3:19; Re 10:9,10); the innermost of the soul (the American Revised Version, margin Joh 7:38).
Frank E. Hirsch
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Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.