στόμαχος, στομαχου, ὁ (στόμα, which see); 1. the throat: Homer, others. 2. an opening, orifice, especially of the stomach, Aristotle 3. in later writings (as Plutarch, others) the stomach: 1Ti_5:23.

στόμαχος stomachos 1x pr. the gullet leading to the stomach; hence, later, the stomach itself, 1Ti_5:23

* στόμαχος , -ου , ὁ ( < στόμα ), prop ., a mouth, an opening; (a) in early Gk . writers, the throat; (b) of the opening of the stomach ( Arist .); (c) in later writers ( Plut ., al. ), the stomach: 1Ti_5:23 .†

στόμαχος [page 592] in early Greek writers = throat, but afterwards extended to stomach, as in 1Ti_5:23 , its only NT occurrence : cf. P Leid W xvii. 36 (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 145) ἀμφοτέρας ( sc. χεῖρας ) ἐπὶ τοῦ στομάχου . The word is used metaph. in P Oxy III. 533 .14 (ii/iii A.D.) ἵ [ν ]α μὴ ἔχωμεν στομάχου [ς ] μηδὲ φθόνον , that we may not be caused vexation and annoyance (Edd.) : cf. Vett. Val. p. 216 .3 γέγονε στόμαχος ( anger ) πρὸς δουλικὸν πρόσωπον .

στόμαχος στόμα^χος, ὁ, [Etym: στόμα] properly, "a mouth, opening": hence, "the throat, gullet", Il. in late Gr. "the orifice of the stomach, the stomach."

στόμαχος, -ου, ὁ (στόμα), prop., a mouth, an opening; __(a) in early Gk. writers, the throat; __(b) of the opening of the stomach (Arist.); __(with) in later writers (Plut., al.), the stomach: 1Ti.5:23.† (AS)