Show Notes
ב-ט-נ (bet–ṭet–nun) / ب–ط–ن (bāʾ–ṭāʾ–nūn)
Belly
In the Hebrew Bible: beṭen, belly
In the Qurʾan: baṭn, their bellies · bāṭin, and the secret · biṭāna, intimates · baṭana, concealed
Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. Each radical answers its like, letter for letter; no shift is needed.
Passages
- Job 32:18: For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
- Genesis 38:27: In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.
- Deuteronomy 28:18: The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
- John 7:38: He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
- Galatians 1:15: But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
- Revelation 12:2: She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
- Sūrat al-Dukhān سورة الدخان “The Smoke” 44:45: Like molten brass, it seetheth in their bellies
- Sūrat al-Ḥajj سورة الحج “The Pilgrimage” 22:20: Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted;
- Sūrat al-Ṣāffāt سورة الصافات “Those who set the Ranks” 37:66: And lo! they verily must eat thereof, and fill (their) bellies therewith.
Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.
The digital voice Fāṭima (فَاطِمَة) is named in honor of the learned women of al-Andalus, particularly Fāṭima bint Yaḥyā al-Maghāmī, Fāṭima al-Sharrāṭ, and Fāṭima bint al-Muthannā, whose legacies embody the Andalusian traditions of scriptural scholarship, jurisprudence, education, and wisdom.
What is Triliteral Root of the Day?
Every day, one Semitic triliteral root heard in three scriptures: the root in Hebrew and Arabic, how it functions, and a passage from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qurʾan, read in the original languages with the English. Two or three minutes a day, from OCABS on the Ephesus School Network.