H4578 · מֵעֶה
mêʻeh · may-aw' · bowel, belly, heart
H4578 (mêʻeh, pronounced may-aw') is the Hebrew word מֵעֶה in Strong’s dictionary: used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy. It appears 32 times in 30 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- מֵעֶה (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- mêʻeh
- Pronunciation
- may-aw'
- Derivation
- from an unused root probably meaning to be soft;
- Definition
- used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
- Rendered in the KJV
- belly, bowels, [idiom] heart, womb.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
32 occurrences in 30 verses (30 with English words of their own, 2 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “my heart” ×3
- “within” ×3
- “your stomach” ×2
- “From inside” ×1
- “His body” ×1
- “My anguish” ×1
- “My heart” ×1
- “and spilled out his intestines” ×1
By book
Genesis 2 · Numbers 1 · Ruth 1 · 2 Samuel 3 · 2 Chronicles 4 · Job 2 · Psalms 3 · Song of Solomon 2 · Isaiah 4 · Jeremiah 2 · Lamentations 2 · Ezekiel 2 · Jonah 2
Verses
- Genesis 15:4
- Genesis 25:23
- Numbers 5:22
- Ruth 1:11
- 2 Samuel 7:12
- 2 Samuel 16:11
- 2 Samuel 20:10
- 2 Chronicles 21:15
- 2 Chronicles 21:18
- 2 Chronicles 21:19
- 2 Chronicles 32:21
- Job 20:14
- Job 30:27
- Psalms 22:14
- Psalms 40:8
- Psalms 71:6
- Song of Solomon 5:4
- Song of Solomon 5:14
- Isaiah 16:11
- Isaiah 48:19
- Isaiah 49:1
- Isaiah 63:15
- Jeremiah 4:19
- Jeremiah 31:20
- Lamentations 1:20
- Lamentations 2:11
- Ezekiel 3:3
- Ezekiel 7:19
- Jonah 1:17
- Jonah 2:1
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H4578.