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Bowel [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To take out the bowels; to eviscerate; to penetrate the bowels.

Bowel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

2. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.

3. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.

4. Offspring.

Bowel [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Boweled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having bowels; hollow.

Boweled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boweling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bowelled Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bowelless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Without tenderness of pity.

Bowelless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without pity.

Bowelling Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bowels [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. plural

2. The intestines of an animal; the entrails, especially of man. The heart. 2ÃÂ CorinthiansÃÂ 6:12 .

3. The interior part of any thing; as the bowels of the earth.

4. The seat of pity or kindness; hence, tenderness, compassion, a scriptural sense.

5. Bowel, in the singular, is sometimes used for gut.

Bowels Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

The bowels are the seat of mercy, tenderness, and compassion. Joseph’s bowels were moved at the sight of his brother Benjamin; that is, he felt himself softened and affected. The true mother of the child whom Solomon commanded to be divided, felt her bowels move, and consented that it should be given to the woman who was not its real mother, 1 Kings, iii, 26. The Hebrews also sometimes place wisdom and understanding in the bowels, “Who hath put wisdom in the inner parts?” or bowels, Job xxxviii, 36. The Psalmist says, “Thy law is within my heart,” literally, in the midst of my bowels,--it is by me strongly and affectionately regarded, Psalm xl, 8.

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Genesis 15:4

And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

Genesis 25:23

And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Genesis 43:30

And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

Numbers 5:22

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

Judges 3:22

And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s bowels emptied.

2 Samuel 7:12

And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Samuel 16:11

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.

Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.

2 Samuel 20:10

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

1 Kings 3:26

Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”

2 Chronicles 21:15

And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”

2 Chronicles 21:18

And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

2 Chronicles 21:19

And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.

2 Chronicles 32:21

And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

Job 20:14

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Job 30:27

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Psalms 71:6

By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.

Psalms 109:18

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Song of Solomon 5:4

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.

Isaiah 16:11

Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.

Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.