from κοῖλος koîlos ("hollow"); a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart:—belly, womb.
Outline
- the whole belly, the entire cavity
- the upper [i.e. stomach] and the lower belly are distinguished
- the lower belly, the lower region, the receptacle of the excrement
- the gullet
- to be given up to the pleasures of the palate, to gluttony
- the womb, the place where the foetus is conceived and nourished until birth
- of the uterus of animals
- the innermost part of a man, the soul, heart as the seat of thought, feeling, choice