בֶּטֶןbeṭen
belly, body, womb
Pronunciation: beh'-ten · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H990
Meanings
1.
a. belly, abdomen (Judges 3:21; Judges 3:22; Numbers 5:21)
b. belly of hippopotamus (Job 40:16)
c. בֶּטֶן שְׁאוֺל (Jonah 2:3)
2. body, opposed to soul (Psalms 31:10; Psalms 44:26)
3. womb (Genesis 25:23; Genesis 25:24; Genesis 38:27)
4. architectural word of some rounded projection connected with the two pillars Jachin & Boaz (1 Kings 7:20)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 72 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 25:23 And the Lord told her, “The sons in your womb will become two nations. From the very beginning, the two nations will be rivals. One nation will be stronger than the other; and your older son will serve your younger son.”
- Genesis 25:24 And when the time came to give birth, Rebekah discovered that she did indeed have twins!
- Genesis 30:2 Then Jacob became furious with Rachel. “Am I God?” he asked. “He’s the one who has kept you from having children!”
- Genesis 38:27 When the time came for Tamar to give birth, it was discovered that she was carrying twins.
- Numbers 5:21 “At this point the priest must put the woman under oath by saying, ‘May the people know that the Lord’s curse is upon you when he makes you infertile, causing your womb to shrivel and your abdomen to swell.
- Numbers 5:22 Now may this water that brings the curse enter your body and cause your abdomen to swell and your womb to shrivel.’ And the woman will be required to say, ‘Yes, let it be so.’
See every passage
- Genesis 25:23, 25:24, 30:2, 38:27
- Numbers 5:21, 5:22, 5:27
- Deuteronomy 7:13, 28:4, 28:11, 28:18, 28:53, 30:9
- Judges 3:21, 3:22, 13:5, 13:7, 16:17
- 1 Kings 7:20
- Job 1:21, 3:10, 3:11, 10:19, 15:2, 15:35, 19:17, 20:15, 20:20, 20:23, 31:15, 31:18, 32:18, 32:19, 38:29, 40:16
- Psalms 17:14, 22:9, 22:10, 31:9, 44:25, 58:3, 71:6, 127:3, 132:11, 139:13
- Proverbs 13:25, 18:8, 18:20, 20:27, 20:30, 22:18, 26:22, 31:2
- Ecclesiastes 5:15, 11:5
- Song of Solomon 7:2
- Isaiah 13:18, 44:2, 44:24, 46:3, 48:8, 49:1, 49:5, 49:15
- Jeremiah 1:5
- Ezekiel 3:3
- Hosea 9:11, 9:16, 12:3
- Jonah 2:2
- Micah 6:7
- Habakkuk 3:16
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).