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Strong’s Concordance H4578
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- me`ah
- Pronunciation
- may-aw'
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H4578
- Brief meaning
- Used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy, by implication
- Source renderings
- belly, bowels, heart, womb
- Root word
- from an unused root probably meaning to be soft
- Full definition from the source
- Used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extens. the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively). Root word: from an unused root probably meaning to be soft.
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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04578\ 4578 me`ah may-aw' from an unused root probably meaning to be soft; used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extens. the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively):--belly, bowels, X heart, womb.