Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 9:37

37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See, there come people down by the middle of the land , and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.

Heb. by the navel of the Land. So he calls, either First, the middle of it, as the middle part of Greece and of Sicily are called the navel of them, by the Roman Writers, because the Navel is in the midst of Mans Body: Or, Secondly, The higher part of it, called the Mountains, v. 36. and here the navel, because it was raised above the other ground, as the Navel is above the rest of the Body.

Marginal references: Hebr. navel.; Or, the regarders of [illegible: 1+ letters]imes.