Words the Bible translates as loins
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- osphusὀσφῦςthe loins: the lower back and hips where a belt is fastened, and, in the same breath, the part of a man's body his children are said to come from.
- motenמׇתְנַיִםthe loins: the lower back and hips, the body's center of physical strength
- yarekhיָרֵךְthe thigh: the fleshy upper part of the leg, and, by extension, the source of a person's children and the side or base of a structure
- keselכֶּסֶלthe loin: the thick, fatty flesh low on the back, beside the kidneys
+2 more meanings
- confidence: the thing a person is counting on to hold them up
- folly: thick-headed stupidity, the settled dullness of someone who will not think
- ḥalatsחָלָץthe loins: the lower back and hips, the place a belt is tied and the place a man's children are said to come from
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