[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/bowel/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) / bowel # bowel noun (a bowel, bowels) «bowel» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. The long tube in the body below the stomach, also called the intestines, where food is digested and waste is formed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#m1) 2. (bowels) The inside of the body's gut. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#m2) 3. The bowels of something: the deepest inside part: the bowels of the earth, the bowels of the ship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#m3) ### In the lessons In science and health lessons the bowel is part of the digestive system; doctors ask about "bowel movements" (a polite word for going to the toilet for a poo). In stories "the bowels of the ship" means deep down inside it. Phrases: bowel movement, the bowels of, large bowel, small bowel. ### Examples - Food passes from the stomach into the bowel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x1) - The doctor asked if his bowels were working normally. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x2) - Fibre helps keep your bowels healthy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x3) - The engine room was deep in the bowels of the ship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x4) - The miners went down into the bowels of the earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x5) - The large bowel absorbs water from waste. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x6) - Fifty doors flew open before him, and at length he reached a long flight of steps which seemed to lead into the bowels of the earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x7) ### Note Often plural: bowels. "Bowel movement" is the polite, medical way to talk about pooing. Do not confuse with "bowl" (a dish) or "vowel" (a letter like a, e, i, o, u). ## In Jewish tradition In the old translation, "bowels" means the inner body, and the place where children come from, as in "out of thine own bowels." It can also mean deep feeling. In Ezra, "bowels of gold" is an old word for gold bowls or basins. **Interpretation.** In the later books, the bowels are the place of sickness, as when God struck a king with an incurable disease there, and Job says the wicked man's food turns to poison in his bowels. The tradition reads such verses as showing that suffering follows wickedness. ### Examples - and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.' (Torah NUM.5.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowel/#x1) - And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying: 'This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.' (Torah GEN.15.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowel/#x2) - And the LORD said unto her: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. (Torah GEN.25.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowel/#x3) - And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. (Writings 2CH.21.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowel/#x4) - Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. (Writings JOB.20.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowel/#x5) - and twenty bowels of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold. (Writings EZR.8.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowel/#x6) ### Note Often plural: bowels. "Bowel movement" is the polite, medical way to talk about pooing. Do not confuse with "bowl" (a dish) or "vowel" (a letter like a, e, i, o, u). ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «bowel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«bowel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bowel.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «bowel» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«bowel» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/bowel.html) on Mova free.