κοιλία: Difference between revisions

|txtha=κοιλίας, ἡ ([[κοῖλος]] [[hollow]]); the Sept. for בֶּטֶן, the [[belly]]; מֵעִים` the [[bowels]]; קֶרֶן, the [[interior]], the [[midst]] of a [[thing]]; רֶחֶם, the [[womb]]; the [[belly]]: and<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the [[whole]] [[belly]], the [[entire]] [[cavity]]; [[hence]] ἡ [[ἄνω]] and ἡ [[κάτω]] [[κοιλία]], the [[upper]] (i. e. the [[stomach]]) and the [[lower]] [[belly]] are [[distinguished]]; [[very]] [[often]] so in Greek writings from [[Herodotus]] [[down]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[lower]] [[belly]], the alvine [[region]], the [[receptacle]] of the [[excrement]] ([[Plutarch]], symp. 7,1, 3under the [[end]] [[εἴπερ]] [[εἰς]] κοιλίαν ἐχώρει [[διά]] στομαχου [[πᾶν]] τό πινόμενον): the [[gullet]] (Latin stomachus): WH Tr marginal [[reading]] χορτασθῆναι ἐκ etc.); δουλεύειν τῇ [[κοιλία]], to be given up to the pleasures of the [[palate]], to [[gluttony]] ([[see]] [[δουλεύω]], 2b.), ὧν ὁ Θεός ἡ [[κοιλία]], κοιλίας [[ὄρεξις]], the [[womb]], the [[place]] [[where]] the [[foetus]] is conceived and nourished [[till]] [[birth]]: Sept.; [[very]] [[rarely]] in [[secular]] authors; [[Epictetus]] diss. 3,22, 74; of the uterus of animals, ibid. 2,16, 43); ἐκ ([[beginning]] from ([[see]] ἐκ, IV:1)) κοιλίας μητρός, אֵם מִבֶּטֶן, [[ἀπό]] κοιλίας μητρός; cf. Winer's Grammar, 33 (32))).<br /><b class="num">5.</b> in [[imitation]] of the [[Hebrew]] בֶּטֶן, tropically, the innermost [[part]] of a Prayer of Manasseh, the [[soul]], [[heart]], as the [[seat]] of [[thought]], [[feeling]], [[choice]] (Sept. [[γαστήρ]]); Sept. [[ψυχή]]); Sept. σπλάγχνα); John 7:38.