STRONGS NUMBER H4578


Word Summary
meeh: internal organs, inward parts, belly
Original Word: מֵעֶה
Transliteration: meeh
Phonetic Spelling: (may-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: internal organs, inward parts, belly
Meaning: the intestines, the abdomen, sympathy, a vest, the stomach, the uterus, the heart
Strong's Concordance
belly, bowels, heart, womb

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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4578. meeh

[מֵעֶה‎] noun masculineIsaiah 16:11 only

plural internal organs, inward parts (intestines, bowels), belly (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic מַעֲיָא מְעָא,‎, , ; Arabic ; Ethiopic ; — on form compare LagBN 156 BaZMG xiii. 1888, 345); — plural [מֵעִים‎] construct מְעֵיPsalm 71:6 3t.; suffix מֵעַי2 Samuel 16:11 9t., מֵעָ֑יPsalm 22:15; 40:9; מֵעֶיךָGenesis 15:4 6t.; מֵעַיִךְ25:23; Numbers 5:22; מֵעָיו2 Samuel 20:10 5t.; מֵעֵיהֶםEzekiel 7:19; —

1 literally:

a. אַ֫רְצָה מֵעָיו וַיִּשְׁמֹּךְ2 Samuel 20:10 and he poured out his inward parts on the ground (through a wound); compare מ ׳מַחֲלֵה2 Chronicles 21:15, 18, מ ׳יָָֽצְאוּ21:15; 21:19.

b. as digestive organs, but without precision, nearly = stomach, belly, Job 20:14; Ezekiel 3:3 ("" בֶּטֶן‎), 7:19 ("" נֶפֶשׁ‎; both with מָלֵא‎), Numbers 5:22; so of fish that swallowed Jonah Jonah 2:1; 2:2.

2 source of procreation: ׳מִמּ יצא אשׁר‎ (said of offspring) Genesis 15:4 (JE), 2 Samuel 7:12 ("" זַרְעֲךָ‎), 16:11; מ ׳צֶאֱצָאֵיIsaiah 48:19 ("" id.); מ ׳מִיצִיאֵי2 Chronicles 32:21.

3 = womb, יִמָּרֵ֑דוּ מִמֵּעַיִח לְאֻמִּים שְׁנֵיGenesis 25:23 (J; "" בֶּטֶן‎), compare Isaiah 49:1 ("" id.), Psalm 71:6 ("" id.), Ruth 1:11.

4 in General = inwards, inward part, מ בְּתוֺךְ נָמֵס ֗֗֗ ׳לִבִּיPsalm 22:15, compare מ בְּתוֺךְ ׳תּוֺרָֽתְךָ40:9.

5 figurative = seat of emotions: pity, Isaiah 16:11 ("" קֶרֶב‎); of God's compassion, Jeremiah 31:20 ("" רחם‎; in both subject of verb הָמוּ‎); מֵעֶיךָ הֲמוֺןIsaiah 63:15 ("" רַחֲמֶיךָ‎); distress, Jeremiah 4:19 (twice in verse) ("" חֳמַרְמָרוּ מֵעַי לֵב,Lamentations 1:20 ("" לֵב‎), 2:11 ("" כָּבֵדliver); רֻתְּחוּ מֵעַיJob 30:27 (dubious, see Bu); love, עָלָיו הָמוּ מֵעַיSong of Solomon 5:4.

6 the external belly, שֵׁן עֶשֶׁת מֵעָיוSong of Solomon 5:14.