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Lexicon :: Strong's H990 - beṭen

Aa
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 BoxGen 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:24 - And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:27 - And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 - A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53 - And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ...

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:20 - And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:21 - With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11 - Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:2 - Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17 - My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:15 - He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20 - There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15 - Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:18 - For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29 - Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:16 - His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 - For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 - The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:6 - You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:3 - See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:11 - The Lord gave a true oath to David, which he will not take back, saying, I will give your kingdom to the fruit of your body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 - My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:25 - The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:8 - The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:20 - With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:27 - The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.

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