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# כְּרֵשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3770

**belly** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

belly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3770/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּרֵשׂ: belly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3770/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] belly (NH כֶּרֶס id.; Aramaic כַּרְסָא, ܟܰܪܣܳܐ id.; Mand. כראס, כארסא, uterus, NöM 151, 157; Arabic كَرِشٌ, Ethiopic ከርሥ wrinkled or folded stomach of cud-chewing animals; cf. LagBN 20, 44; Assyrian karšu, body, belly);—only sf. כְּרֵשׂוֹ Je 51:34 of Nebuchadrezzar under fig. of sea-monster.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: belly (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.34/#tree)

אֲכָלַ֣נִי הֲמָמַ֗נִי נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֮ מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶל֒ הִצִּיגַ֙נִי֙ כְּלִ֣י רִ֔יק בְּלָעַ֙נִי֙ כַּתַּנִּ֔ין מִלָּ֥א כְרֵשׂ֖וֹ מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑י הֱדִיחָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* he devoured.me he confused.me Nebuchadnezzar the.king of.Babylon he set.me.down a.vessel of.emptiness he swallowed.me like.(the) sea monster he.filled belly his from delicacies my he rinsed.me.out

*JPS 1917:* Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath set me down as an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath washed me clean.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3770.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3770/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).