κοιλία koilía

Meaning

a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart

In the King James Version: belly, womb

Derivation: from ("hollow");

Where it is used

• Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Matthew 15:17 “Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?
• Matthew 19:12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
• Mark 7:19 because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
• Luke 1:15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
• Luke 1:41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
• Luke 1:42 In a loud voice she exclaimed, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
• Luke 1:44 For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
• Luke 2:21 When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.
• Luke 11:27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”
• Luke 15:16 He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
• Luke 23:29 Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
• John 3:4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
• John 7:38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
• Acts 3:2 And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
• Acts 14:8 In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
• Romans 16:18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
• 1 Corinthians 6:13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
• Galatians 1:15 But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
• Philippians 3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
• Revelation 10:9 And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
• Revelation 10:10 So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.