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Noun koilia (belly, womb) in the Gospels-Acts
(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 12: 40 | For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly (koilia) of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth. |
| 15: 17 | Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the belly (koilia), and goes out into the sewer? |
| 19: 12 | For there are eunuchs who have been so from mother's womb (koilia), and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can." |
Mark
| 7: 19 | since it enters, not the heart but the belly (koilia), and goes out into the sewer?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.) |
Luke
| 1: 15 | for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink; from the womb (koilia) of his mother he will already be filled with the Holy Spirit. |
| 1: 41 | When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leaped in her womb (koilia). And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit |
| 1: 42 | and exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb (koilia). |
| 1: 44 | For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb (koilia) leaped for joy. |
| 2: 21 | After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb (koilia). |
| 11: 27 | While he was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the womb (koilia) that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!" |
| 23: 29 | For the days are surely coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs (koilia) that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' |
John
| 3: 4 | Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb (koilia) and be born?" |
| 7: 38 | and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, 'Out of his belly (koilia) shall flow rivers of living water.'" |
Acts
| 3: 2 | And a man lame from his mother's womb (koilia) was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple. |
| 14: 8 | In Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet and had never walked, for he had been crippled from his mother's womb (koilia). |
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