מֵעֶה
mêʻeh · may-aw'
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)
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root probably meaning to be soft;
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)
- 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: belly, bowels, [idiom] heart, womb.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to see and know › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מֵעֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
32 occurrences · 32 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- my bowels5 · 16%
- of thy bowels3 · 9%
- of my bowels2 · 6%
- his bowels2 · 6%
- out of thine own bowels1 · 3%
- from thy bowels1 · 3%
- into thy bowels1 · 3%
- in my womb1 · 3%
- out of thy bowels1 · 3%
- until thy bowels1 · 3%
- him in his bowels1 · 3%
- of his own bowels1 · 3%
- in his bowels1 · 3%
- my heart1 · 3%
- bowels1 · 3%
- of the door, and my bowels1 · 3%
- his belly1 · 3%
- wherefore my bowels1 · 3%
- from the bowels1 · 3%
- him still: therefore my bowels1 · 3%
- thy bowels1 · 3%
- their bowels1 · 3%
- was in the belly1 · 3%
- belly1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.