κοιλία

Matthew 12:40 κοιλίᾳ belly

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

Here: The inner hollow of a body (stomach, abdomen, womb). Here it is the creature's insides. Greek Jonah 2:3 also uses it for 'the belly of Hades', the place of the dead, so the word already carries the sense of being swallowed by death.

Matthew 15:17 κοιλίαν stomach

“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?

Here: The abdominal cavity or digestive tract: the gut as a whole, not just the organ we call the stomach. The point is that food goes to the gut, not to the heart (Mark 7:19 says so explicitly).

Matthew 19:12 κοιλίας womb

For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

Here: The mother's womb. 'From the womb' is a common biblical way of saying 'from birth' (e.g. Judges 16:17; Psalm 22:10).

Mark 7:19 κοιλίαν belly

because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)

Luke 1:15 κοιλίας [the] womb

for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

Here: The general word for the body's cavity. With 'mother' it means womb, and it echoes biblical language about people chosen before birth (Judges 13:5; Jeremiah 1:5; Isaiah 49:1).

Luke 1:41 κοιλίᾳ womb

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Here: The body's inner cavity, here the womb. The word comes back in v.42, 'the fruit of your womb', and in v.44.

Luke 1:42 κοιλίας womb

In a loud voice she exclaimed, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Here: 'Womb' (literally 'belly'). The same word was just used for Elizabeth's womb, where John leaped (v. 41), so the scene ties the two pregnancies together. Mary's pregnancy is only days or weeks old and cannot be seen.

Luke 1:44 κοιλίᾳ womb

For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Luke 2:21 κοιλίᾳ. womb.

When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.

Here: 'Womb', a plain bodily word. Luke uses it often in chapters 1–2 (1:15, 31, 41, 42, 44), keeping the story rooted in real pregnancy and birth.

Luke 11:27 κοιλία womb

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”

Here: The womb. The part stands for the whole person: it means his mother, praised through the body that carried him.

Luke 23:29 κοιλίαι wombs

Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

Here: Wombs. Speaking of women by their body parts is blunt and physical, and it keeps the focus on childbearing itself.

John 3:4 κοιλίαν womb

“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

Here: The body cavity, and here specifically the womb. The image is deliberately physical and earthy.

John 7:38 κοιλίας belly

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

Here: The hollow inside of the body: stomach, womb, the deep interior. In Hebrew-shaped speech it can also stand for the innermost self. Here it is a concrete picture of a hollow from which water gushes, like a spring or a cleft rock.

Acts 3:2 κοιλίας womb

And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.

Here: With 'mother' it means 'womb'. The phrase is a Hebrew-flavoured way of saying 'from birth', and Luke uses it again for the lame man at Lystra (Acts 14:8).

Acts 14:8 κοιλίας [the] womb

In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.

Here: 'Belly' or 'womb.' Together with 'of his mother' it forms a Biblical idiom meaning 'from birth,' and it says outright that the condition was congenital.

Romans 16:18 κοιλίᾳ, belly,

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Here: 'Belly' was a common moral image for appetite and self-interest. These people are slaves to their own wants, which can include food, comfort, money and status. It is not only about overeating.

1 Corinthians 6:13 κοιλίᾳ κοιλία belly

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Here: The stomach as the organ of appetite. 'Foods are for the belly' says food exists to meet that need, and there is nothing more to it.

Galatians 1:15 κοιλίας [the] womb

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

Here: 'Womb'. With 'mother' it forms a set biblical phrase for one's birth, the phrase the prophets used of their own calls.

Philippians 3:19 κοιλία belly

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

Here: The belly as the seat of bodily appetite. In Greek and Jewish moral writing, serving the belly meant being ruled by your own cravings and interests (food, drink, sex, comfort), not only overeating.

Revelation 10:9 κοιλίαν, stomach,

And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

Here: Literally the abdomen, where the scroll ends up. In biblical idiom the belly is also the deep inner self where feelings and convictions sit, so the bitterness is felt inside the prophet and not only in his gut.

Revelation 10:10 κοιλία stomach

So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.

Here: The belly, meaning the inside of the body. In biblical idiom it is also the seat of deep feeling. The message has gone all the way in, and that is where the bitterness is felt.