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Strong's G1064 γαστήρ (gaster)

Gaster means “belly” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1064 — bekorath (“Bechorath”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1064
Language Greek
Linked Usages 73
Books 24

Strong's G1064 Quick Answer

Strong's G1064 γαστήρ (gaster) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. gaster (gas-tare') n. 1. the stomach 2. (by analogy) the matrix It has 73 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include child and womb. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
gaster (gas-tare') n. 1. the stomach 2. (by analogy) the matrix
Usage
73 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
child and womb

Meaning and Definition

gaster (gas-tare') n. 1. the stomach 2. (by analogy) the matrix 3. (figuratively) a gourmand [of uncertain derivation] KJV: belly, + with child, womb

Original Word
γαστήρ
Transliteration
gaster
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1064. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

belly

Usage: γαστήρͅ, -τρός, ἡ, [in LXX for בֶּטֶן, ἐν γ. ἔχειν for הרה, ἐν γ. λαμβάνειν for חרה ;] __1. the belly: metaphorically, a glutton, Tit.1:12. __2. the womb: ἐν γ. ἔχειν, to be with child, Mat.1:18, 23" (LXX) 24:19, Mrk.13:17, Luk.21:23, 1Th.5:3, Rev.12:2; εν γ. συλλαμβ., to conceive, Luk.1:31. † (AS)

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How Strong's G1064 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gaster, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

child Matthew 1:18 womb Luke 1:31

How Strong's G1064 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 55 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1064 (γαστήρ) appears 66 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1064 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1064 in the New Testament

9 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 1:18 KJV

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 1:23 KJV

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Matthew 24:19 KJV

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Strong's G1064 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

55 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 16:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived, and saw that she was with child, and her mistress was dishonored before her.

Genesis 16:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And Sarai said to Abram, I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonored before her. The Lord judge between me and thee.

Genesis 16:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, for the Lord hath hearkened to thy humiliation.

Strong's G1064 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 7:27 Septuagint / Brenton

But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spoke in her country language on this manner; O my son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.

3 Maccabees 6:8 Septuagint / Brenton

When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, thou didst look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.

3 Maccabees 7:11 Septuagint / Brenton

They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king.

Strong's G1064 in 1 Enoch

2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 7:2 Septuagint / Brenton

and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they

1 Enoch 99:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children, And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them: Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return to them, And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.

Usage Excerpts

First 73 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1064.

Genesis 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived, and saw that she was with child, and her mistress was dishonored before her.
Genesis 16:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Sarai said to Abram, I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonored before her. The Lord judge between me and thee.
Genesis 16:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, for the Lord hath hearkened to thy humiliation.
Genesis 25:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebekah his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebekah conceived in her womb.
Genesis 25:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to her, There are two nations in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy belly, And one people shall excel the other, And the elder shall serve the younger.
Genesis 30:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass in the time wherein the cattle became pregnant, conceiving in the belly, Jacob put the rods before the cattle in the troughs, that they might conceive by the rods.
Genesis 38:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, What is the earnest that I shall give thee? and she said, Thy ring, and thy bracelet, and the staff in thy hand; and he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
Genesis 38:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass after three months, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with child by whoredom; and Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.
Genesis 38:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as they were bringing her, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man whose these things are; and she said, See whose is this ring and bracelet and staff.
Genesis 38:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when she was in labor, that she also had twins in her womb.
Exodus 2:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months.
Exodus 2:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gershom, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.
Exodus 21:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if two men strive and smite a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman’s husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.
Numbers 5:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and this water bringing the curse shall enter into thy womb to cause thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, So be it, So be it.
Numbers 11:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou sworest to their fathers?
Judges 13:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and there shall come no razor upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.
Judges 13:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to me, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing; for the child shall be holy to God from the womb until the day of his death.
2 Kingdoms 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
4 Kingdoms 4:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at the very time, as the season was, being alive, as Elisha said to her.
4 Kingdoms 8:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he said, Because I know all the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: thou wilt utterly destroy their strongholds with fire, and thou wilt slay their choice men with the sword, and thou wilt dash their infants against the ground, and their women with child thou wilt rip up.
4 Kingdoms 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Menahem smote both Tiphsah and all that was in it, and its borders extending beyond Tirzah, because they opened not to him: and he smote it, and ripped up the women with child.
1 Chronicles 7:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because, said he, He was afflicted in my house.
Job 3:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.
Job 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For why died I not in the belly? And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?
Job 10:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I become as if I had not been? For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?
Job 15:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? And does he fill up the pain of his belly,
Job 15:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall conceive sorrows, And his end shall be vanity, And his belly shall bear deceit.
Job 16:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My belly has been parched with wailing, And darkness is on my eyelids.
Job 20:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; The gall of an asp is in his belly.
Job 20:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If by any means he would fill his belly, Let God send upon him the fury of wrath; Let him bring a torrent of pains upon him.
Job 21:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their cow does not cast her calf, And their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
Job 31:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? Yea, we were formed in the same womb.
Job 31:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
(For I nourished them as a father from my youth, And guided them from my mother’s womb).
Job 32:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for I am full of words, For the spirit of my belly destroys me.
Job 32:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine bound up and ready to burst; Or as a brazier’s laboring bellows.
Job 38:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And out of whose womb comes the ice? And who has produced the frost in the sky,
Job 40:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the navel of his belly.
Psalms 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because of the enemies of thy hand: O Lord, destroy them from the earth; Scatter them in their life, Though their belly has been filled with thy hidden treasures: They have been satisfied with uncleanness, And have left the remnant of their possessions to their babes.
Psalms 21:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou art he that drew me out of the womb; My hope from my mother’s breasts.
Psalms 30:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: My eye is troubled with indignation, My soul and my belly.
Psalms 43:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For our soul has been brought down to the dust; Our belly has cloven to the earth.
Psalms 57:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: They go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
Psalms 70:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On thee have I been stayed from the womb: From the belly of my mother thou art my protector: Of thee is my praise continually.
Psalms 109:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
With thee is dominion in the day of thy power, In the splendors of thy saints: I have begotten thee from the womb before the morning.
Psalms 126:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, The reward of the fruit of the womb.
Psalms 138:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou, O Lord, hast possessed my reins; Thou hast helped me from my mother’s womb.
Ecclesiastes 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, He shall return back as he came, And he shall receive nothing for his labor, That it should go with him in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: As the bones are hidden in the womb of a pregnant woman, So thou shalt not know the works of God, Even all things whatsoever he shall do.
Isaiah 7:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 8:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.
Isaiah 26:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We have conceived, O Lord, because of thy fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of thy salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth: we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.
Isaiah 40:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.
Hosea 14:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up.
Amos 1:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gileadites.
Amos 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts.
Matthew 1:18 New Testament, KJV
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Matthew 1:23 New Testament, KJV
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Matthew 24:19 New Testament, KJV
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mark 13:17 New Testament, KJV
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 1:31 New Testament, KJV
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luke 21:23 New Testament, KJV
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 New Testament, KJV
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Titus 1:12 New Testament, KJV
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Revelation 12:2 New Testament, KJV
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
2 Maccabees 7:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spoke in her country language on this manner; O my son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.
3 Maccabees 6:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, thou didst look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.
3 Maccabees 7:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king.
4 Maccabees 7:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O priest, worthy of the priesthood! thou didst not pollute thy sacred teeth; nor make thy appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.
4 Maccabees 13:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all-wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother’s womb.
Wisdom of Sirach 37:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
There is a companion, which helpeth his friend for the belly, And taketh up the buckler against the enemy.
Wisdom of Sirach 40:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Great travail is created for every man, And a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, From the day that they go out of their mother’s womb, Till the day that they return to the mother of all things.
1 Enoch 7:2 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they
1 Enoch 99:5 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children, And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them: Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return to them, And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1064, grouped by book.

Genesis 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
Titus 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 2 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G1064 FAQ

What does gaster (γαστήρ) mean?

Gaster (Strong's G1064) is a Greek word most simply glossed "belly". gaster (gas-tare') n. 1. the stomach 2. (by analogy) the matrix

How many times is gaster (γαστήρ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 73 linked usages for Strong's G1064 across 24 books.

Where can I study gaster (γαστήρ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1064 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate gaster (γαστήρ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as child and womb. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1064 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 55 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1064, with linked reader references where each row is available.