bowels Summary and Overview

(Phil. 1:8; 2:1; Col. 3:12), compassionate feelings; R.V., "tender mercies."

BOWELS . As we use the terms heart, breast, bosom, so this term is used by the sacred writers, evidently in a figurative sense, for affections or emotions of the heart. Col 3:12; 1 John 3:17.

Bowels, including the heart, the seat of the affections and emotions. "My bowels are troubled for him," namely, with tender yearnings of compassionate love (Jeremiah 31:20; Isaiah 63:15; Hosea 11:8; Philemon 2:1).