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
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
I am powred out like water, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart is like waxe, it is melted in the middest of my bowels.
1611 marginal noteOr, sundred.
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
By thee haue I bene holden vp from the wombe: thou art hee that tooke mee out of my mothers vowels, my praise shalbe continually of thee.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
As he clothed himselfe with cursing like as with his garment: so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
1611 marginal noteHeb. within him.
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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.
