koilia · belly, womb

What it means

koilia (κοιλία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “belly, womb”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The gut, or appetite.
2. The place where a mother carries her child before birth.
3. The innermost part of a person.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• womb ×11
• stomach ×7
• belly ×3
• within ×1
• wombs ×1

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×1
• Luke×8
• John×2
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×1
• Philippians×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 12:40

  For just as Jonah was in the belly of the sea monster three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

• Matthew 15:17

  Do you not see that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?

• Matthew 19:12

  For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”

• Mark 7:19

  because it does not go into his heart but into the stomach, and goes out into the latrine?” —declaring clean all foods.

• Luke 1:15

  for he will be great before the Lord, and wine and intoxicating drink he will never drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

• Luke 1:41

  And it happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

• Luke 1:42

  and she cried out with a loud cry and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

• Luke 1:44

  For look, when the sound of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in joy in my womb.

• Luke 2:21

  And when eight days were completed for his circumcision, his name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

• Luke 11:27

  Now it happened, as he was saying these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Happy is the womb that carried you, and the breasts that you nursed at!”

• Luke 15:16

  And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

• Luke 23:29

  for look, days are coming in which they will say, ‘Happy are the barren and the wombs that did not bear, and the breasts that did not nurse!’

• John 3:4

  Nicodemus says to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

• John 7:38

  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from within him.’”

• Acts 3:2

  And a certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they used to set every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those entering into the temple.

• Acts 14:8

  And in Lystra a certain man was sitting, without strength in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.

• Romans 16:18

  For such people are not slaves to our Lord the Messiah but to their own belly, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

• 1 Corinthians 6:13

  Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both the one and the other. But the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

• Galatians 1:15

  But when the one who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace was pleased

• Philippians 3:19

  whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

• Revelation 10:9

  And I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little scroll. And he says to me, “Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”

• Revelation 10:10

  And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey; and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

And 1 more times.