Lexical Summary kares: belly Original Word: כְּרֵשׂTransliteration: kares Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ace') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: belly Meaning: the paunch, belly Strong's Concordance belly By variation from qarac; the paunch or belly (as swelling out) -- belly. see HEBREW qarac Brown-Driver-Briggs H3770. kares [כָּרֵשׂ] noun [masculine] belly (Late Hebrew כֶּרֶס id.; Aramaic כַּרְסָא id.; Mandean כארסא כראס,, uterus, NöM 151, 157; Arabic Ethiopic wrinkled or folded stomach of cud-chewing animals; compare LagBN 20, 44; Assyrian karšu, body, belly); — only suffix כְּרֵשׂוֺ Jeremiah 51:34 of Nebuchadrezzar under figure of sea-monster. |