Dictionary of Bible Themes As well as the physical stomach, the term is used in association with God's judgment or in a figurative sense. 1 Corinthians 6:13Stomach as part of the physical body See also Job 40:16Songs 7:2 Daniel 2:32 Matthew 12:40 See also Jonah in the stomach of a huge fish Jonah 1:17-2:1Mark 7:18-19 Ritual laws concerning the stomach See also Leviticus 11:41-45pp Mt 15:17 Luke 15:16Afflictions of the stomach 1 Timothy 5:23hunger illness Judges 3:21Fatal wounding in the stomach 2 Samuel 2:23; 3:27; 4:6; 20:10Jeremiah 30:6-7 The stomach and God's judgment See also Severe stomach pain Numbers 5:20-22,27Genesis 3:14 Crawling on one's stomach as a sign of submission See also Psalms 72:9Part of God's curse upon Satan. Isaiah 49:23; 65:25Micah 7:17 Micah 6:14 See also Hunger as a result of God's judgment Job 20:12-15,20-23Proverbs 13:25 Isaiah 9:20 Ezekiel 7:19 Amos 4:6 An empty stomach as a warning Psalms 34:9-10; 37:19,25The stomach and God's blessing Proverbs 10:3In the OT a full stomach was one sign of God's blessing: Ezekiel 3:3Figurative uses of the stomach See also Stomach as a symbol of inner thoughts Proverbs 18:8; 26:22Revelation 10:9-10 Philippians 3:19 See also Stomach as a symbol of worldliness Romans 16:18Proverbs 18:20 See also Stomach as something to be filled Job 15:2Jeremiah 51:34 See also 4120 Satan5012 heart 5025 killing 5040 murder 5136 body 5199 womb 5341 hunger 5792 appetite 5869 greed 7424 ritual law 8848 worldliness 9210 judgment, God's |
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