Lexicon gastér: the belly Original Word: γαστήρ, γαστρός, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: gastér Phonetic Spelling: (gas-tare') Short Definition: the womb, stomach, to be pregnant Definition: the womb, stomach; of a woman: to be with child (lit: to have [a child] in the belly). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitionthe belly NASB Translationchild* (4), gluttons (1), pregnant (3), womb (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1064: γαστήργαστήρ, γαστρός (poetic, γαστερος), ἡ, in Greek authors from Homer down; in the Sept. for בֶּטֶן; 1. the belly; by metonymy, of the whole for a part, 2. Latinuterus, the womb: ἐν γαστρί ἔχειν to be with child) see ἔχω, I. 1 b.): Matthew 1:18, 23; Matthew 24:19; Mark 13:17; Luke 21:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Revelation 12:2; (in the Sept. for הָרָה, Genesis 16:4; Genesis 38:25; Isaiah 7:14, etc.; Herodotus 3, 32 and vit. Homer 2; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 18, p. 105; 3, 32, p. 177; Pausanias, Herodian, others); συλλαμβάνεσθαι ἐν γαστρί to conceive, become pregnant, Luke 1:31. 3. the stomach; by synecdoche a glutton, gormandizer, a man who is as it were all stomach, Hesiod theog. 26 (so also γάστρις, Aristophanes av. 1604; Aelian v. h. 1, 28; and Latinventer in Lucil. sat. 2, 24 edition Gerl. 'vivite ventres'): γαστέρες ἀργαί, Titus 1:12; see ἀργός, b.
Strong's belly, womb. Of uncertain derivation; the stomach; by analogy, the matrix; figuratively, a gourmand -- belly, + with child, womb. |
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