γαστήρ
belly
‘belly’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1064 appears in the Book of Revelation — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Revelation
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“belly” is the headline sense of the Greek noun γαστηρ (gastḗr). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:18. With 9 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 9-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1064 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 22%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 22%
- Johannine 1 verse · 11%
- Revelation 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Child 3×
- American Standard Version: Child 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gluttons 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Womb 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1064 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1064 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1064 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 7 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1064 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the belly
- the womb
- a glutton, gormandiser, a man who is as it were all stomach
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivation; the stomach ; by analogy the matrix ; figuratively a gourmand : - belly + with child womb.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1064 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γαστρὶ gastrì | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 1:18 | 8 |
| γαστέρες gastéres | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Titus 1:12 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word γαστηρ appears 57 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 55 verses in 13 books.
- 57
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 55
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 16:4 γαστήρ
- Exodus 2:2 γαστήρ
- Numbers 5:22 γαστήρ
- Judges 13:5 γαστήρ
- 2 Samuel 11:5 γαστήρ
- 2 Kings 4:17 γαστήρ
- 1 Chronicles 7:23 γαστήρ
- Job 3:10 γαστήρ
- Psalms 16:14 γαστήρ
- Ecclesiastes 5:14 γαστήρ
- Isaiah 7:14 γαστήρ
- Hosea 14:1 γαστήρ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1064) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 55. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 16:4 γαστήρ He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
- Genesis 16:5 γαστήρ Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
- Genesis 16:11 γαστήρ The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
- Genesis 25:21 γαστήρ Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Genesis 25:23 γαστήρ Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
- Genesis 30:41 γαστήρ It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
- Genesis 38:18 γαστήρ He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
- Genesis 38:24 γαστήρ It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
- Genesis 38:25 γαστήρ When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these-- the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
- Genesis 38:27 γαστήρ It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
- Exodus 2:2 γαστήρ The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
- Exodus 2:22 γαστήρ She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."
- Exodus 21:22 γαστήρ "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.
- Numbers 5:22 γαστήρ and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.' The woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'
- Numbers 11:12 γαστήρ Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?
- Judges 13:5 γαστήρ for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
- Judges 13:7 γαστήρ but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
- 2 Samuel 11:5 γαστήρ The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
- 2 Kings 4:17 γαστήρ The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
- 2 Kings 8:12 γαστήρ Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.
- 2 Kings 15:16 γαστήρ Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and the borders of it, from Tirzah: because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.
- 1 Chronicles 7:23 γαστήρ He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
- Job 3:10 γαστήρ Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
- Job 3:11 γαστήρ "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
- Job 10:19 γαστήρ I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 15:2 γαστήρ "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
- Job 15:35 γαστήρ They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."
- Job 16:16 γαστήρ My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
- Job 20:14 γαστήρ Yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
- Job 20:23 γαστήρ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
- Job 21:10 γαστήρ Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
- Job 31:15 γαστήρ Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
- Job 31:18 γαστήρ (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);
- Job 32:18 γαστήρ For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
- Job 32:19 γαστήρ Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; Like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
- Job 38:29 γαστήρ Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
- Job 40:16 γαστήρ Look now, his strength is in his loins, His force is in the muscles of his belly.
- Psalms 16:14 γαστήρ
- Psalms 21:10 γαστήρ You will destroy their descendants from the earth, Their posterity from among the children of men.
- Psalms 30:10 γαστήρ Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."
- Psalms 43:26 γαστήρ
- Psalms 57:4 γαστήρ My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
- Psalms 70:6 γαστήρ
- Psalms 109:3 γαστήρ They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
- Psalms 126:3 γαστήρ Yahweh has done great things for us, And we are glad.
- Psalms 138:13 γαστήρ
- Ecclesiastes 5:14 γαστήρ Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5 γαστήρ As you don't know what is the way of the wind, Nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; Even so you don't know the work of God who does all.
- Isaiah 7:14 γαστήρ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- Isaiah 8:3 γαστήρ I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said Yahweh to me, Call his name Maher Shalal Hash Baz.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1064) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
