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# bowels

«bowels» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **inner parts; womb; depths** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

inner parts; womb; depths

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The inside of the body, the womb, or the deep inside of the earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bowels/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it usually means the intestines. Here it means the insides in general, the womb, or the deep part of the earth.

### examples

- and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.' (Torah NUM.5.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bowels/#x1)
- Fifty doors flew open before him, and at length he reached a long flight of steps which seemed to lead into the bowels of the earth. (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bowels/#x2)
- And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying: 'This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.' (Torah GEN.15.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bowels/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 11 (Torah 3, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [My bowels, my bowels!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.117/)
- [Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.511/)
- [and twenty bowels of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.216/)
- [And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.473/)
- ["Number two" means a poo, emptying the bowels; children and parents use it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bowels» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bowels/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.