Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  5000 Humanity  »  5125 Parts of the body and clothing  »  5185 stomach

As well as the physical stomach, the term is used in association with God's judgment or in a figurative sense.

Stomach as part of the physical body

1 Corinthians 6:13 See also Job 40:16; Songs 7:2; Daniel 2:32

Jonah in the stomach of a huge fish

Matthew 12:40 See also Jonah 1:17-2:1

Ritual laws concerning the stomach

Mark 7:18-19 pp Matthew 15:17 See also Leviticus 11:41-45

Afflictions of the stomach

Luke 15:16 hunger; 1 Timothy 5:23 illness

Fatal wounding in the stomach

Judges 3:21; 2 Samuel 2:23; Samuel 3:27; Samuel 4:6; Samuel 20:10

The stomach and God's judgment

Severe stomach pain

Jeremiah 30:6-7 See also Numbers 5:20-22,27

Crawling on one's stomach as a sign of submission

Genesis 3:14 Part of God's curse upon Satan. See also Psalm 72:9; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 65:25; Micah 7:17

Hunger as a result of God's judgment

Micah 6:14 See also Job 20:12-15,20-23; Proverbs 13:25; Isaiah 9:20; Ezekiel 7:19

An empty stomach as a warning

Amos 4:6

The stomach and God's blessing

In the OT a full stomach was one sign of God's blessing:

Psalm 34:9-10; Psalm 37:19,25; Proverbs 10:3

Figurative uses of the stomach

Stomach as a symbol of inner thoughts

Ezekiel 3:3 See also Proverbs 18:8; Proverbs 26:22; Revelation 10:9-10

Stomach as a symbol of worldliness

Philippians 3:19 See also Romans 16:18

Stomach as something to be filled

Proverbs 18:20 See also Job 15:2; Jeremiah 51:34

See also

4120  Satan
5012  heart
5024  inner being
5040  murder
5136  body
5199  womb
5341  hunger
5792  appetite
5869  greed
7424  ritual law
8848  worldliness
9210  judgment, God's