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# bowels

noun

«bowels» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

The inside of the body, the womb, or the deep inside of the earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bowels/#m1)

### Then and now

Today it usually means the intestines. Here it means the insides in general, the womb, or the deep part of the earth.

### 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/emode/B/bowels/#x1)
- 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. (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bowels/#x2)
- 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/emode/B/bowels/#x3)

### Note

Today: inner parts; womb; depths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bowels» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bowels/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bowels» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/bowels.html) on Mova free.