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Nave Topical Bible
• Bowels
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American Tract Society
• Bowels
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Bowels
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Bowels
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Bowels
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Bowels
King James Dictionary
• Bowels
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Bowels
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Bowels
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Bowels
Wilson's Bible Types
• Bowels
Webster Dictionary
• Bowelling
• Bowelled
• Boweling
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Sir MacKenzie Bowell
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Bowels
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Bowels (2)
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• ܓ݁ܰܘܳܝܳܐ
• ܡܥܰܝܳܐ
• ܪܳܚܡܳܐ
• σπλάγχνον
• מֵעֶה
• רַחַם , רַחֲמִים

Bowels are often put by the Hebrew writers for the internal parts generally, the inner man, and so also for heart, as we use that term. Hence the bowels are made the seat of tenderness, mercy, and compassion; and thus the Scriptural expressions of the bowels being moved, bowels of mercy, straitened in the bowels, etc. By a similar association of ideas, the bowels are also sometimes made the seat of wisdom and understanding (Job 38:36; Psalms 51:10; Isaiah 16:11).