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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 - and the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. 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 Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:27 - When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse and will say to the her, "The LORD make you an attested curse among your people, if the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - and this water that causes the curse will go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot." Then the woman must say, "Amen, amen."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness - her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring 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 greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 - Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, 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 - You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - The LORD your God will make the labor of your hands abundantly successful and multiply your children, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the LORD your God will once more rejoice over you to make you prosperous just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon's belly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud did not pull the sword out of his belly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - Look, you will conceive and have a son. You must never cut his hair, for the child will be dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power of the Philistines."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - He said to me, 'Look, you will conceive and have a son. So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. For the child will be dedicated to God from birth till the day he dies.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - Finally he told her his secret. He said to her, "My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:20 - On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:21 - He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11 - "Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:2 - "Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception."

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17 - My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:15 - The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20 - For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - "While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb 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 constrains me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, like new wineskins ready to burst!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29 - From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:16 - Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - LORD, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother's breasts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother's womb you have been my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 - For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 - The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:6 - I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother's womb. I praise you continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:3 - Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:11 - The LORD made a reliable promise to David; he will not go back on his word. He said, "I will place one of your descendants on your throne.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 - Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother's womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:25 - The righteous has enough food to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked lacks food.

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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 into the person's innermost being.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:20 - From the fruit of a person's mouth his stomach is satisfied, with the product of his lips is he satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:27 - The human spirit is like the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.

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