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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
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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.; —
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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 25:24 - iam tempus pariendi venerat et ecce gemini in utero repperti sunt

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - cui iratus respondit Iacob num pro Deo ego sum qui privavit te fructu ventris tui

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:27 - instante autem partu apparuerunt gemini in utero atque in ipsa effusione infantum unus protulit manum in qua obsetrix ligavit coccinum dicens

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - his maledictionibus subiacebis det te Dominus in maledictionem exemplumque cunctorum in populo suo putrescere faciat femur tuum et tumens uterus disrumpatur

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - ingrediantur aquae maledictae in ventrem tuum et utero tumescente putrescat femur et respondebit mulier amen amen

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - quas cum biberit si polluta est et contempto viro adulterii rea pertransibunt eam aquae maledictionis et inflato ventre conputrescet femur eritque mulier in maledictionem et in exemplum omni populo

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - et diliget te ac multiplicabit benedicetque fructui ventris tui et fructui terrae tuae frumento tuo atque vindemiae oleo et armentis gregibus ovium tuarum super terram pro qua iuravit patribus tuis ut daret eam tibi

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - benedictus fructus ventris tui et fructus terrae tuae fructusque iumentorum tuorum greges armentorum et caulae ovium tuarum

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - abundare te faciet Dominus omnibus bonis fructu uteri tui et fructu iumentorum tuorum fructu terrae tuae quam iuravit Dominus patribus tuis ut daret tibi

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 - maledictus fructus ventris tui et fructus terrae tuae armenta boum tuorum et greges ovium tuarum

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:53

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53 - et comedes fructum uteri tui et carnes filiorum et filiarum tuarum quas dedit tibi Dominus Deus tuus in angustia et vastitate qua opprimet te hostis tuus

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - et abundare te faciet Dominus Deus tuus in cunctis operibus manuum tuarum in subole uteri tui et in fructu iumentorum tuorum in ubertate terrae tuae et in rerum omnium largitate revertetur enim Dominus ut gaudeat super te in omnibus bonis sicut gavisus est in patribus tuis

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - extenditque Ahoth manum sinistram et tulit sicam de dextro femore suo infixitque eam in ventre eius

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - tam valide ut capulus ferrum sequeretur in vulnere ac pinguissimo adipe stringeretur nec eduxit gladium sed ita ut percusserat reliquit in corpore statimque per secreta naturae alvi stercora proruperunt

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - quia concipies et paries filium cuius non tanget caput novacula erit enim nazareus Dei ab infantia sua et ex matris utero et ipse incipiet liberare Israhel de manu Philisthinorum

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - sed hoc respondit ecce concipies et paries filium cave ne vinum bibas et siceram et ne aliquo vescaris inmundo erit enim puer nazareus Dei ab infantia sua et ex utero matris usque ad diem mortis suae

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - tunc aperiens veritatem rei dixit ad eam ferrum numquam ascendit super caput meum quia nazareus id est consecratus Deo sum de utero matris meae si rasum fuerit caput meum recedet a me fortitudo mea et deficiam eroque ut ceteri homines

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:20 - et rursum alia capitella in summitate columnarum desuper iuxta mensuram columnae contra retiacula malogranatorum autem ducenti ordines erant in circuitu capitelli secundi

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:21 - et dixit nudus egressus sum de utero matris meae et nudus revertar illuc Dominus dedit Dominus abstulit sit nomen Domini benedictum

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11 - quare non in vulva mortuus sum egressus ex utero non statim perii

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - fuissem quasi qui non essem de utero translatus ad tumulum

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:2 - numquid sapiens respondebit quasi in ventum loquens et implebit ardore stomachum suum

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - concepit dolorem et peperit iniquitatem et uterus eius praeparat dolos

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17 - halitum meum exhorruit uxor mea et orabam filios uteri mei

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:15 - divitias quas devoravit evomet et de ventre illius extrahet eas Deus

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20 - nec est satiatus venter eius et cum habuerit quae cupierat possidere non poterit

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - utinam impleatur venter eius ut emittat in eum iram furoris sui et pluat super illum bellum suum

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15 - numquid non in utero fecit me qui et illum operatus est et formavit in vulva unus

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - quia ab infantia mea crevit mecum miseratio et de utero matris meae egressa est mecum

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:18 - plenus sum enim sermonibus et coartat me spiritus uteri mei

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - en venter meus quasi mustum absque spiraculo quod lagunculas novas disrumpit

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29 - de cuius utero egressa est glacies et gelu de caelo quis genuit

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:16 - [Vulgate 40:11] fortitudo eius in lumbis eius et virtus illius in umbilicis ventris eius

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - [Vulgate 16:14] a viris manus tuae Domine qui mortui sunt in profundo quorum pars in vita et quorum de absconditis tuis replesti ventrem qui satiabuntur filiis et dimittent reliquias suas parvulis eorum

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - [Vulgate 21:10] tu autem propugnator meus ex utero fiducia mea ab uberibus matris meae

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - [Vulgate 21:11] in te proiectus sum ex vulva de ventre matris meae Deus meus es tu

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - [Vulgate 30:10] miserere mei Domine quoniam tribulor caligavit in furore oculus meus anima mea et venter meus

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 - [Vulgate 43:25] quoniam incurvata est in pulvere anima nostra adhesit terrae venter noster

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 - [Vulgate 57:4] alienati sunt peccatores a vulva erraverunt ab utero loquentes mendacium

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:6 - [Vulgate 70:6] a te sustentatus sum ex utero de ventre matris meae tu es protector meus in te laus mea semper

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:3 - [Vulgate 126:3] ecce hereditas Domini filii mercis fructus ventris

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:11 - [Vulgate 131:11] iuravit Dominus David veritatem non avertetur ab ea de fructu ventris tui ponam super sedem tuam

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 - [Vulgate 138:13] quoniam tu possedisti renes meos orsusque es me in utero matris meae

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:25 - iustus comedit et replet animam suam venter autem impiorum insaturabilis

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:8 - verba bilinguis quasi simplicia et ipsa perveniunt usque ad interiora ventris

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:20 - de fructu oris viri replebitur venter eius et genimina labiorum illius saturabunt eum

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:27 - lucerna Domini spiraculum hominis quae investigat omnia secreta ventris

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - livor vulneris absterget mala et plagae in secretioribus ventris

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