κοιλία koilia

Greek word for “belly/womb/stomach” · Strong’s G2836 · used 22 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

κοιλία, -ας, ἡ; (κοῖλος, hollow);

How it is translated

Glosses given for koilia in context, with how often each is used:

• womb 11
• belly 7
• stomach 3
• wombs 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 1 (4), Revelation 10 (2), Matthew 12 (1), Matthew 15 (1), Matthew 19 (1), Mark 7 (1), Luke 2 (1), Luke 11 (1), Luke 23 (1), John 3 (1)

Forms

• κοιλίας 7
• κοιλίᾳ 6
• κοιλίαν 4
• κοιλία 4
• κοιλίαι 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with koilia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• μήτηρ mētēr “mother” 6
• εἰσπορεύω eisporeuō “to enter” 3
• πλήθω plēthō, pimplēmi “to fill” 3
• ἀφεδρών aphedrōn “latrine” 2
• σκιρτάω skirtaō “to leap” 2
• μαστός mastos, mazos “breast” 2
• βιβλαρίδιον biblaridion “little scroll” 2
• μέλι meli “honey” 2
• πικραίνω pikrainō “to embitter” 2
• γλυκύς glukus “sweet” 2
• γεννάω gennaō “to beget” 3
• στόμα stoma “mouth” 3

Key verses

The verses using koilia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 12:40 — For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Luke 1:15 — For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his…
• Luke 1:41 — And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
• Luke 2:21 — And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in…
• Luke 23:29 — For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
• John 7:38 — He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
• Acts 3:2 — And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that…
• Acts 14:8 — And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
• Romans 16:18 — For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
• 1 Corinthians 6:13 — Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for…
• Galatians 1:15 — But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
• Philippians 3:19 — Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.