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Lexicon :: Strong's H990 - beṭen

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בֶּטֶן
Transliteration
beṭen
Pronunciation
beh'-ten
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root probably meaning to be hollow
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 236a

Strong’s Definitions

בֶּטֶן beṭen, beh'-ten; 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 72x

The KJV translates Strong's H990 in the following manner: belly (30x), womb (31x), body (8x), within (2x), born (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 72x
The KJV translates Strong's H990 in the following manner: belly (30x), womb (31x), body (8x), within (2x), born (1x).

  1. belly, womb, body

    1. belly, abdomen

      1. as seat of hunger

      2. as seat of mental faculties

      3. of depth of Sheol (fig.)

    2. womb

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֶּטֶן beṭen, beh'-ten; 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.
STRONGS H990: Abbreviations
† I. בֶ֫טֶן noun feminineNumbers 5:25 belly, body, womb (Arabic bdb010508) — בּ׳ absolute Judges 13:7 +; בָּ֑טֶן Judges 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 Songs 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 Job 20:15 (|| וַיְקִאֶנּוּ), compare also Psalm 17:14; figurative of innermost part of man = inmost soul Proverbs 18:8 = Proverbs 26:22; Proverbs 20:27, 30 (all חַדְרֵי ב׳); as seat of intellectual faculties (= English breast or bosom) Proverbs 22:18 (compare מֵעִים Psalm 40:9) Job 15:2; Job 15:35; Job 32:18, רוּחַ בִּטְנִי Job 15:19; as trembling at theophany Habakkuk 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 Psalm 31:10 (opposed to נֶפֶשׁ), also Psalm 44:26 (opposed to id.; — on this compare ZimBp 71).
3. womb Genesis 25:23, 24; Genesis 38:27 (all J) Hosea 12:4; Job 10:19 (|| רֶחֶם Job 10:18) Ecclesiastes 11:5; Job 31:15 הֲלֹא בַבֶּטֶן עשֵֹׁנִי עָשָׂ֑הוּ did not he that made me in the womb make him (|| וַיְכֻנֶנּוּ בָּרֶחֶם אֶחָד); compare Psalm 139:13 תְּסֻכֵּנִי בְּבֶטֶן, & Jeremiah 1:5; especially ב׳ פְּרִי i.e. offspring Genesis 30:2 (E) Psalm 127:3; Isaiah 13:18; Proverbs 31:2 בַּר בִּטְנִי = my son (|| בְּרִי) compare בֶּןבִּֿטְנָהּ Isaiah 49:15; of birth יָצָא מִבֶּטֶן Job 1:21; Job 3:11; Ecclesiastes 5:14; בֶּטֶן alone = birth Hosea 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) Psalm 22:10; פְּרִי בֶטֶן used also of father Micah 6:7, compare Psalm 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 RSK 33 f., others my sons (Ew), my grandsons (Di); also in addressing Israel as a whole (masculine suffix) Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 28:4, 11, 18, 53; Deuteronomy 30:9, compare מַחֲמַדֵּי בִטְנָם Hosea 9:16 beloved ones of their womb; (מִבֶּטֶן) מִןהַֿבֶּטֶן = from birth Judges 13:5, 7; Psalm 58:4; Psalm 71:6, compare also Isaiah 44:2, 24; Isaiah 46:3 (|| רָחַ֑ם) Isaiah 48:8; Isaiah 49:1, 5; מִבֶּטֶן נִמִּי 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).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:23; 25:23; 25:24; 30:2; 38:27

Numbers

5:21; 5:22; 5:25; 5:27

Deuteronomy

7:13; 7:13; 28:4; 28:11; 28:18; 28:53; 30:9

Judges

3:21; 3:22; 13:5; 13:5; 13:7; 13:7; 16:17

1 Kings

7:20

Job

1:21; 3:10; 3:10; 3:10; 3:11; 10:18; 10:19; 15:2; 15:2; 15:19; 15:35; 19:17; 20:15; 20:20; 20:23; 31:15; 31:18; 32:18; 38:29; 40:16

Psalms

17:14; 22:10; 22:11; 31:10; 40:9; 44:26; 58:4; 71:6; 127:3; 132:11; 139:13; 139:13

Proverbs

13:25; 18:8; 18:20; 20:27; 20:30; 22:18; 26:22; 31:2

Ecclesiastes

5:14; 11:5

Song of Songs

7:3

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; 12:4

Jonah

2:3

Micah

6:7

Habakkuk

3:16

H990

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Strong's Number H990 matches the Hebrew בֶּטֶן (beṭen),
which occurs 72 times in 72 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 25:23–Pro 20:30)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:24 - When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:27 - When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the LORD cause you to become a curse[fn] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” “ ‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 - The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:53

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53 - Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king’s belly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - Even the handle sank in after the blade, and his bowels discharged. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - But he said to me, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:20 - On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:21 - and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart.[fn] The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11 - “Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:2 - “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17 - My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:15 - He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20 - “Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15 - Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:18 - For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29 - From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:16 - What strength it has in its loins, what power in the muscles of its belly!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - By your hand save me from such people, LORD, from those of this world whose reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies; may their children gorge themselves on it, and may there be leftovers for their little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 - We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 - Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:6 - From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:3 - Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:11 - The LORD swore an oath to David, a sure oath he will not revoke: “One of your own descendants I will place on your throne.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 - For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:25 - The righteous eat to their hearts’ content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:8 - The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:20 - From the fruit of their mouth a person’s stomach is filled; with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:27 - The human spirit is[fn] the lamp of the LORD that sheds light on one’s inmost being.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - Blows and wounds scrub away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.

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