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Lexicon :: Strong's G2836 - koilia

Aa
κοιλία
Transliteration
koilia (Key)
Pronunciation
koy-lee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From koilos ("hollow")
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:786,446

Strong’s Definitions

κοιλία koilía, koy-lee'-ah; from κοῖλος koîlos ("hollow"); a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart:—belly, womb.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's G2836 in the following manner: womb (12x), belly (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's G2836 in the following manner: womb (12x), belly (11x).

  1. the whole belly, the entire cavity

    1. the upper [i.e. stomach] and the lower belly are distinguished

  2. the lower belly, the lower region, the receptacle of the excrement

  3. the gullet

    1. to be given up to the pleasures of the palate, to gluttony

  4. the womb, the place where the foetus is conceived and nourished until birth

    1. of the uterus of animals

  5. the innermost part of a man, the soul, heart as the seat of thought, feeling, choice

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κοιλία koilía, koy-lee'-ah; from κοῖλος koîlos ("hollow"); a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart:—belly, womb.
STRONGS G2836:
κοιλία, κοιλίας, ἡ (κοῖλος hollow); the Sept. for בֶּטֶן, the belly; מֵעִים` the bowels; קֶרֶן, the interior, the midst of a thing; רֶחֶם, the womb; the belly: and
1. the whole belly, the entire cavity; hence ἡ ἄνω and ἡ κάτω κοιλία, the upper (i. e. the stomach) and the lower belly are distinguished; very often so in Greek writings from Herodotus down.
2. the lower belly, the alvine region, the receptacle of the excrement (Plutarch, symp. 7, 1, 3 under the end εἴπερ εἰς κοιλίαν ἐχώρει διά στομαχου πᾶν τό πινόμενον): Matthew 15:17; Mark 7:19.
3. the gullet (Latinstomachus): Matthew 12:40; Luke 15:16 (WH Tr marginal reading χορτασθῆναι ἐκ etc.); 1 Corinthians 6:13; Revelation 10:9f; δουλεύειν τῇ κοιλία, to be given up to the pleasures of the palate, to gluttony (see δουλεύω, 2 b.), Romans 16:18; also for ὧν ὁ Θεός ἡ κοιλία, Philippians 3:19; κοιλίας ὄρεξις, Sir. 23:6.
4. the womb, the place where the foetus is conceived and nourished till birth: Luke 1:41f, 44; Luke 2:21; Luke 11:27; Luke 23:29; John 3:4 (very often so in the Sept.; very rarely in secular authors; Epictetus diss. 3, 22, 74; of the uterus of animals, ibid. 2, 16, 43); ἐκ (beginning from (see ἐκ, IV. 1)) κοιλίας μητρός, Matthew 19:12; Luke 1:15; Acts 3:2; Acts 14:8; Galatians 1:15, (for אֵם מִבֶּטֶן, Psalm 21:11 (Ps. 22:11); Psalms 70:6 (Ps. 71:6); Job 1:21; Isaiah 49:1; Judges 16:17 (the Vaticanus manuscript, ἀπό κοιλίας μητρός; cf. Winer's Grammar, 33 (32))).
5. in imitation of the Hebrew בֶּטֶן, tropically, the innermost part of a man, the soul, heart, as the seat of thought, feeling, choice (Job 15:35; Job 32:18 (the Sept. γαστήρ); Proverbs 18:8 (the Sept. ψυχή); Proverbs 20:27, 30; 26:22 (the Sept. σπλάγχνα); Habakkuk 3:16; Sir. 19:12 Sir. 51:21): John 7:38.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Judges
16:17
Job
1:21; 15:35; 32:18
Psalms
21:11; 22:11; 71:6
Proverbs
18:8; 20:27; 20:30; 26:22
Isaiah
49:1
Habakkuk
3:16
Matthew
12:40; 15:17; 19:12
Mark
7:19
Luke
1:15; 1:41; 1:44; 2:21; 11:27; 15:16; 23:29
John
3:4; 7:38
Acts
3:2; 14:8
Romans
16:18
1 Corinthians
6:13
Galatians
1:15
Philippians
3:19
Revelation
10:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2836 matches the Greek κοιλία (koilia),
which occurs 22 times in 21 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:40

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:40 - For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:17 - Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:12 - For there are some eunuchs who were that way from birth, and some who were made eunuchs by others, and some who became eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this should accept it."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:19 - For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer." (This means all foods are clean.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:15 - for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:41 - When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:42 - She exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:44 - For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:21 - At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:27 - As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:29 - For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:4 - Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:38 - let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:2 - And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called "the Beautiful Gate" every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:8 - In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:18 - For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13 - "Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:15 - But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:19 - Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 10:9 - So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take the scroll and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth."

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 10:10 - So I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
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