ABORTION/FETUS/WOMB/FORMED

 

Hebrew

 

womb = beten belly, womb, body; meim = womb; recham/rechem = a womb, a female

 

form = yatsar to form, fashion, frame, constitute; chul chyl to bring forth in pain, writhe in pain, be in much, sore pain

 

bowels = beten womb; rechem bowels

 

Greek

 

womb = gaster belly, womb; koilia womb, belly, hollow place; metra = a womb, matrix

 

belly = gaster belly; beten belly

 

form = plasso to shape or mold; plasma thing molded or shaped

 

OLD TESTAMENT

 

Genesis 2:7, 8 “And the Lord God formed (yatsar) man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.  And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed (yatsar).”

 

Deuteronomy 7:13 “God will bless the fruit of the womb (beten).”

 

Deuteronomy 32:18 “Of the Rock that begat (yalad = to beget, bring forth) thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed (yatsar) thee.”

 

Judges 13:5, 7 (Angel of God) “For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb (beten): and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.  But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink not wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb (beten) to the day of his death.”

 

Judges 16:17 “He (Samson) told her all his heart, and said unto her, There

hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb (beten).”

 

Job 31:15 “Did not he that made me in the womb (beten) make him?  And did not one fashion us in the womb: (beten)?”

 

Psalm 22:9, 10 “But thou art he that took me out of the womb (beten): thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.  I was cast upon thee from the womb (rechem): Thou art my God from my mother’s belly (betten).”

 

Psalm 127:3 “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb (beten) is his reward.”

 

Psalm 139:13 “Thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb (beten).”

 

Psalm 139:16 “Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect (golem = unformed mass, as the embryo), and in thy book all my members were written (dathab = to write, to grave, prescribe, record, inscribe), which in continuance (yom = until birth) were fashioned (atsar = squeezing into shape, to mold into a form as a potter, determine, fashion, frame, make), when as yet there was none of them.”

 

Proverbs 26:10 “The great God formed (yatsar) all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.”

 

Ecclesiastes 11:5 “As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb (beten) of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.”

 

Isaiah 44:2 “Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb (beten), which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun (Symbolic name for Israel), whom I have chosen.”

 

Isaiah 44:21 “Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou are my servant: I have formed (yatsar) thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.”

 

Isaiah 44:24 “Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed (yatsar) thee from the womb (beten), I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;”

 

Isaiah 49:1 “Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb (beten); from the bowels (meim = bowels) of my mother hath he made mention of my name.”

 

Isaiah 49:5 “And now, saith the Lord that formed (yatsar) me from the womb (beten) to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, thought Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.”

 

Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed (yatsar) thee in the belly (beten), I knew you; and before thou camest forth out of the womb (rechem) I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”

 

Zechariah 12:1 “The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which strecheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth (yatsar) the spirit of man within him.”

 

NEW TESTAMENT

 

Matthew 19:12 “For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb (koilia);”

 

Luke 1:15 “For he (John the Baptizer) shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb (koilia).”

 

Luke 1:31 “And, behold, thou (Mary) shalt conceive in thy womb (gaster) and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.”

 

Luke 1:41 “And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her (Elizabeth) womb (koilia) and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.”

 

Luke 1:42 “And she (Elisabeth) spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed is the fruit of thy (Mary) womb (koilia).”

 

Luke 1:44 “For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy (Mary) salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my (Elisabeth) womb (koilia) for joy.”

 

Luke 2:21 “And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named before he was conceived in the womb (koilia).”

 

Acts 3:2 “And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb (koilia) was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;”

 

Acts 14:8 “And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb (koilia), who never had walked:”

 

Romans 9:20 “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?  Shall the thing formed (plasma) say to him that formed (plasso) it, why hast thou made thus?”

 

Galatians 1:15 “But it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb (koilio), and called me by his grace.” 

 

Galatians 4:19 “My little children, of whom I travail in birth (odino = to be in pain) again until Christ be formed (morphoo) in you.”

 

I Timothy 2:13 “For Adam was first formed (plasso), then Eve.”

 

 

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