KJV dictionary & concordance
1. Figuratively, deep inward feeling or affection, especially compassion, mercy, or distress; also one deeply loved. 2. The inward organs or inner parts of the body. 3. The womb or inward bodily source of offspring.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 15:4
Complete exact-word concordance
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Put on therefore (as the elect of God, holy and beloued) bowels of mercies, kindnesse, humblenesse of minde, meekenesse, long suffering,
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Historical English dictionary sources
plural 1. The intestines of an animal; the entrails, especially of man. The heart. 2 Corinthians 6:12. 2. The interior part of any thing; as the bowels of the earth. 3. The seat of pity or kindness; hence, tenderness, compassion, a scriptural sense. Bowel, in the singular, is sometimes used for gut.
