mee · inward parts, womb

What it means

mee (מֵעֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “inward parts, womb”.

Inward parts, belly. "One who comes from your inward parts" is one's own child. Figuratively, the seat of feeling.

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 inward parts, the inside of the body; hence the child who comes out of them.
2. What is felt inside: pain, anguish or compassion felt in the bowels.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• insides ×8
• inward parts ×7
• bowels ×6
• inner parts ×4
• own body ×3
• belly ×1
• body ×1
• entrails ×1
• womb ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Numbers×1
• Ruth×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Job×2
• Psalms×3
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Jonah×2

• Genesis 15:4

  And look, the word of YHWH came to him, saying, “This one will not be your heir; but one who will come out from your own body, he will be your heir.”

• Genesis 25:23

  YHWH said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from your inner parts will be divided; one people will be stronger than the other people, and the older will serve the younger.”

• Numbers 5:22

  may this water that brings a curse go into your bowels to make the belly swell and the thigh sag.’ And the woman shall say, ‘Amen, amen.’

• Ruth 1:11

  But Naomi said, “Return, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb that they could become husbands for you?

• 2 Samuel 7:12

  When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who will come out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

• 2 Samuel 16:11

  David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Look, my son, who came out from my own body, seeks my life; how much more now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone and let him curse, for YHWH has told him.

• 2 Samuel 20:10

  But Amasa did not guard himself against the sword that was in the hand of Joab, and he struck him with it in the belly and poured out his entrails on the ground, and he did not repeat the blow on him, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.

• 2 Chronicles 21:15

  and you will have many diseases, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day after day.’”

• 2 Chronicles 21:18

  After all this YHWH struck him in his bowels with a disease for which there was no cure.

• 2 Chronicles 21:19

  And it happened, as days passed, and at the time of the coming of the end of two years, his bowels came out with his disease, and he died in evil ailments. His people did not make for him a burning like the burning of his fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 32:21

  YHWH sent an angel, who wiped out every mighty man of valor and leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria; and he returned with shame of face to his land. He went into the house of his god, and some of those who came out of his own body made him fall there by the sword.

• Job 20:14

  his bread in his bowels is turned; the gall of vipers it is within him.

• Job 30:27

  My inward parts boil and are not silent; days of affliction have come to meet me.

• Psalms 22:14

  Like water I have been poured out, and all my bones have come apart; my heart has become like wax, it has melted within my inward parts.

• Psalms 40:8

  To do your will, my Elohim, I have desired, and your instruction is within my inward parts.”

• Psalms 71:6

  On you I have leaned from the womb; from the inward parts of my mother you are the one who took me out; in you is my praise continually.

• Song of Songs 5:4

  My beloved put his hand through the hole, and my insides were stirred for him.

• Song of Songs 5:14

  His hands are cylinders of gold set with chrysolite; his belly a plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

• Isaiah 16:11

  Therefore my insides for Moab like a lyre moan, and my inmost being for Kir-heres.

• Isaiah 48:19

  and your offspring would have been like the sand, and the offshoots of your inward parts like its grains; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

• Isaiah 49:1

  Listen to me, coastlands, and pay attention, peoples from afar: YHWH called me from the womb; from the inward parts of my mother he made mention of my name.

• Isaiah 63:15

  Look from the heavens and see, from the residence of your holiness and of your beauty. Where are your zeal and your mighty deeds? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion toward me have been restrained.

• Jeremiah 4:19

  My insides, my insides! I writhe in pain! The walls of my heart! My heart is pounding within me; I cannot keep silent, for you have heard, my soul, the sound of the horn, the battle cry of war.

• Jeremiah 31:20

  Is Ephraim a dear son to me, or a child of delight? For as often as I speak of him, I still remember him; therefore my inward parts are stirred for him; I will surely have compassion on him, declares YHWH.

• Lamentations 1:20

  See, YHWH, that I am in distress; my insides are in turmoil; my heart is overturned within me, for I have rebelled and rebelled; outside the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.

• Lamentations 2:11

  My eyes are spent with tears; my insides are in turmoil; my liver is poured out on the ground because of the shattering of the daughter of my people, when child and nursing infant faint in the squares of the city.

• Ezekiel 3:3

  And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly and fill your insides with this scroll that I am giving you.” And I ate it, and it was in my mouth like honey for sweetness.

• Ezekiel 7:19

  Their silver into the streets they will throw, and their gold will be as impurity; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of YHWH; their appetite they will not satisfy, and their insides they will not fill, for it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

• Jonah 1:17

  And YHWH appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the inner parts of the fish three days and three nights.

• Jonah 2:1

  Then Jonah prayed to YHWH his Elohim from the inner parts of the fish,

And 2 more times.