בטן
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Aramaic
Pronunciation
Verb
בטן • (transliteration needed)
Hebrew
Etymology 1
Cognate with Arabic بَطْن (baṭn, “stomach”).
| Root |
|---|
| ב־ט־ן (b-ṭ-n) |
Pronunciation
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Noun
בֶּטֶן • (béten) f (singular construct בֶּטֶן־)
- (anatomy) abdomen, belly
- Synonym: כרס (kéres)
- Tanach, Genesis 25:23, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה לָהּ שְׁנֵי גֹיִים בְּבִטְנֵךְ וּשְׁנֵי לְאֻמִּים מִמֵּעַיִךְ יִפָּרֵדוּ וּלְאֹם מִלְאֹם יֶאֱמָץ וְרַב יַעֲבֹד צָעִיר׃
- vayómer YHVH láh sh'néi goyím b'vitnékh ush'néi l'umím mime'áyikh yiparédu ul'óm mil'óm ye'emáts v'ráv ya'avód tsa'ír.
wayyṓmer YHWY lāh šənē ḡōyīm bəḇiṭnēḵ ūšənē ləʾummīm mimmēʿáyiḵ yippārḗḏū ūləʾōm miləʾōm yeʾĕmāṣ wəraḇ yaʿăḇōḏ ṣāʿīr. - And the LORD said unto her: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
- vayómer YHVH láh sh'néi goyím b'vitnékh ush'néi l'umím mime'áyikh yiparédu ul'óm mil'óm ye'emáts v'ráv ya'avód tsa'ír.
Declension
Declension of בֶּטֶן
| Number | Isolated forms | With possessive pronouns | |||||
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| State | Form | Person | singular | plural | |||
| m. | f. | m. | f. | ||||
| singular | indefinite | בֶּטֶן | first | בִּטְנִי | בִּטְנֵנוּ | ||
| definite | הַבֶּטֶן | second | בִּטְנְךָ | בִּטְנֵךְ | בִּטְנְכֶם | בִּטְנְכֶן | |
| construct | בֶּטֶן־ | third | בִּטְנוֹ | בִּטְנָהּ | בִּטְנָם | בִּטְנָן | |
| plural | indefinite | בְּטָנִים | first | בטניי / בְּטָנַי | בְּטָנֵינוּ | ||
| definite | הַבְּטָנִים | second | בְּטָנֶיךָ | בטנייך / בְּטָנַיִךְ | בִּטְנֵיכֶם | בִּטְנֵיכֶן | |
| construct | בִּטְנֵי־ | third | בְּטָנָיו | בְּטָנֶיהָ | בִּטְנֵיהֶם | בִּטְנֵיהֶן | |
References
- H990 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- “בטן” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
בטן on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
Etymology 2
Noun
בֹּטֶן • (bóten) m (plural indefinite בטנים, singular construct בֹּטֶן־)