Strong's Number 2836
Transliteration:
koilia
{koy-lee'-ah}
Word Origin:
from koilos ("hollow")
TDNT:
3:786,446
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
womb 12, belly 11
Total: 23
Definition:
- the whole belly, the entire cavity
- the upper [i.e. stomach] and the lower belly are distinguished
- the lower belly, the lower region, the receptacle of the excrement
- the gullet
- to be given up to the pleasures of the palate, to gluttony
- the womb, the place where the foetus is conceived and nourished until birth
- of the uterus of animals
- the innermost part of a man, the soul, heart as the seat of thought, feeling, choice