Dictionaries :: Belly

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Belly:

the seat of the carnal affections (Tts 1:12; Phl 3:19; Rom 16:18). The word is used symbolically for the heart (Pro 18:8; 20:27; 22:18, marg.). The "belly of hell" signifies the grave or underworld (Jon 2:2).

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Belly:

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).

Written by Frank E. Hirsch

Nave's Topical Bible

Belly: Used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections

Job 15:2, 35; 20:20; Psa 44:25; Pro 18:20; 20:27, 30; Hab 3:16; Jhn 7:38; Tts 1:12

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Belly:

from koilos, "hollow" (Lat., coelum, "heaven," is connected), denotes the entire physical cavity, but most frequently was used to denote "the womb." In Jhn 7:38 it stands metaphorically for the innermost part of man, the soul, the heart.
See WOMB.

Belly:

(cp. Eng., "gastritis"), is used much as No. 1, but in Tts 1:12, by synecdoche (a figure of speech in which the part is put for the whole, or vice versa), it is used to denote "gluttons," RV, for AV, "bellies."
See GLUTTON, WOMB.