ΓΑΣΤΡΟΣ, γαστρος
GASTROS, gastros
Sounds Like: gas-TROS
Translations: (of) belly, (of) womb, (of) stomach, (of) appetite, (of) gluttony
From the root: ΓΑΣΤΗΡ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the belly, stomach, or womb. It can also be used metaphorically to denote appetite or gluttony, emphasizing the desires of the flesh. It is often used in contexts relating to physical sustenance or the origin of life.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1064 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 21:2
Codex Sinaiticus
- Psalms — 21:10, 57:4, 70:6, 109:3, 126:3, 138:13
- Ecclesiastes — 5:14
- Job — 3:10, 3:11, 10:19, 15:2, 31:18, 32:18, 38:29, 40:16
- Sirach — 37:5, 40:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 13:24
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Judges — 13:7
- 3 Maccabees — 7:11
- 4 Maccabees — 13:19
- Psalms — 21:10, 57:4, 70:6, 109:3, 126:3, 138:13
- Ecclesiastes — 5:14
- Job — 3:10, 3:11, 10:19, 15:2, 31:18, 32:18, 38:29, 40:11
- Sirach — 37:5, 40:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΑΣΤΗΡ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΓΑΣ — belly, stomach, womb, a belly, a stomach, a womb
- ΓΑΣΤΕΡΑ — belly, a belly, stomach, a stomach, womb, a womb, appetite, an appetite
- ΓΑΣΤΕΡΑΣ — bellies, stomachs, wombs
- ΓΑΣΤΕΡΕΣ — bellies, stomachs, gluttons
- ΓΑΣΤΗΡ — belly, a belly, stomach, a stomach, womb, a womb
- ΓΑΣΤΙ — to belly, to stomach, to womb, to pregnant woman, to appetite
- ΓΑΣΤΡΙ — to the belly, for the belly, to the womb, for the womb, to the stomach, for the stomach, (to) a belly, (to) a womb, (to) a stomach
- ΓΑΤΡΙ — to the belly, to the womb, to the stomach
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