γαστήρ

γαστήρ — gastḗr

γαστήρ, γαστρός (poetic, γαστερος), ἡ, in Greek authors from Homer down; in the Sept. for בֶּטֶן;

1. the belly; by metonymy, of the whole for a part,

2. Latinuterus, the womb: ἐν γαστρί ἔχειν to be with child) see ἔχω, I. 1 b.): Mat 1:18; Mat 1:23; Mat 24:19; Mar 13:17; Luk 21:23; 1Th 5:3; Rev 12:2; (in the Sept. for הָרָה, Gen 16:4; Gen 38:25; Isa 7:14, etc.; Herodotus 3, 32 and vit. Homer 2; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 18, p. 105; 3, 32, p. 177; Pausanias, Herodian, others); συλλαμβάνεσθαι ἐν γαστρί to conceive, become pregnant, Luk 1:31.

3. the stomach; by synecdoche a glutton, gormandizer, a man who is as it were all stomach, Hesiod theog. 26 (so also γάστρις, Aristophanes av. 1604; Aelian v. h. 1, 28; and Latinventer in Lucil. sat. 2, 24 edition Gerl. 'vivite ventres'): γαστέρες ἀργαί, Tit 1:12; see ἀργός, b.