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title: כְּרֵשׂ — belly · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּרֵשׂ (3770), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: belly. BDB 1906: belly. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּרֵשׂ

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«כְּרֵשׂ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **belly** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3770 · **BDB:** כָּרֵשׂ

### Glosses

belly (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

belly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3770/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

belly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3770/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] belly (NH כֶּרֶס id.; Aramaic כַּרְסָא, ܟܰܪܣܳܐ id.; Mand. כראס, כארסא, uterus, NöM 151, 157; Arabic كَرِشٌ, Ethiopic ከርሥ wrinkled or folded stomach of cud-chewing animals; cf. LagBN 20, 44; Assyrian karšu, body, belly);—only sf. כְּרֵשׂוֹ Je 51:34 of Nebuchadrezzar under fig. of sea-monster.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּרֵשׂ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3770/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 51:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.34/)

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אֲכָלַ֣נִי הֲמָמַ֗נִי נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֮ מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶל֒ הִצִּיגַ֙נִי֙ כְּלִ֣י רִ֔יק בְּלָעַ֙נִי֙ כַּתַּנִּ֔ין מִלָּ֥א כְרֵשׂ֖וֹ מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑י הֱדִיחָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* he devoured.me he confused.me Nebuchadnezzar the.king of.Babylon he set.me.down a.vessel of.emptiness he swallowed.me like.(the) sea monster he.filled belly his from delicacies my he rinsed.me.out

*JPS 1917:* Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath set me down as an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath washed me clean.

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