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.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 15:4
Complete exact-word concordance
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
For wee haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the Saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
Whom I haue sent againe: thou therfore receiue him, that is mine owne bowels.
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Yea, brother, let mee haue ioy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowles in the Lord.
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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.
