45 occurrences

'Loins' in the Bible

All the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.

SeventySeventies

Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Lord’s Passover.

Passover lambAtonement, Types OfNew Year, TheAdventureSandalsStaffHasteShoesClothing OneselfHasty ActionPreparing To TravelWalking With A Staff

You shall make for them linen breeches to cover their bare flesh; they shall reach from the loins even to the thighs.

CoveringBodyCovering NakednessPriests, Institution In Ot TimesThighsLinen ItemsPrivate PartsUndergarmentsbridges

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

ResidueTwo Of Body Parts

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

ResidueTwo Of Body Parts

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

ResidueTwo Of Body Parts

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys

ResidueTwo Of Body Parts

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver he shall remove with the kidneys.

ResidueTwo Of Body Parts

“O Lord, bless his substance,And accept the work of his hands;Shatter the loins of those who rise up against him,And those who hate him, so that they will not rise again.”

The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!’ But you shall speak to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!

FingersBroadnessRemoving BurdensLight YokeFingers Of PeopleEasy Burdens

His servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save your life.”

RopesSackcloth And AshesPeople Showing Mercyhumor

So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’” And he said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

WaistsRelativesLiving On

They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a leather girdle bound about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

LeatherClothingBeltsHairsAnimal SkinsHairy PeopleHairclothHair Garments

Then he said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any man, do not salute him, and if anyone salutes you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the lad’s face.”

BeltsGreetingsHastePreparing For ActionDo Not Greet

Now Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth-gilead.

BeltsSons Of The ProphetsPreparing For ActionNamed Prophets Of The Lord

The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.’ Thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!

FingersDagon

“He loosens the bond of kingsAnd binds their loins with a girdle.

God Freeing Captives

If his loins have not thanked me,And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

FleecesAnimal Skins

“Now gird up your loins like a man,And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!

God EnquiringAnticipationTeaching GodPreparing For Action

“Now gird up your loins like a man;I will ask you, and you instruct Me.

God EnquiringTeaching GodPreparing For ActionMasculinity

“Behold now, his strength in his loinsAnd his power in the muscles of his belly.

StomachsStrength Of Animalsmuscles

For my loins are filled with burning,And there is no soundness in my flesh.

Agony, SicknessBodyBackPainArthritisDiseaseIllnessmuscles

You brought us into the net;You laid an oppressive burden upon our loins.

BackMonotonyGod Appointed AfflictionsGod Trappingpressure

May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see,And make their loins shake continually.

BackGroups TremblingGod Blinding

For this reason my loins are full of anguish;Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

Agony, Of BodyBodyPunishment, Nature OfLabour Pains

“Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are named IsraelAnd who came forth from the loins of Judah,Who swear by the name of the LordAnd invoke the God of Israel,But not in truth nor in righteousness.

eagernessPerjuryProfessingSwearing Oaths FalselyGod Renaming PeopleSwearingListening To Godisrael

Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them.

ReadinessReady To SpeakSpeaking The Word God Gives

‘Ask now, and seeIf a male can give birth.Why do I see every manWith his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth?And why have all faces turned pale?

Labour PainsBirth Not Being PossibleHaving A Babybaby

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

BarbersBaldnessBeardsHairsHeadsKnivesMourningGashing Bodies

Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.

God Is LightSparkling

Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of a man; from His loins and downward there was the appearance of fire, and from His loins and upward the appearance of brightness, like the appearance of glowing metal.

Visions And Dreams In ScriptureGod Is LightColorRainbow

Behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a writing case at his loins. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

Six PeopleComing To GatesFacing NorthWriting On ObjectsWeapons Of GodSetting Up The Bronze AltarDeath Penalty For Killing

Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case.

God, Glory OfGlory, Revelation OfDivine ManifestationsCherubim, Functions OfGod's Glory In IsraelGod's Shekinah GloryGod Appearing At The DoorwayCherubim

Then behold, the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case reported, saying, “I have done just as You have commanded me.”

WritingWe Obey

girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

BeltsHead coveringWaistsOfficersDyeingHeadgear

“When they took hold of you with the hand,You broke and tore all their hands;And when they leaned on you,You broke and made all their loins quake.”

ShouldersBreaking SticksPeople Shakingmuscles

Linen turbans shall be on their heads and linen undergarments shall be on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything which makes them sweat.

DressSweatTurban And CapsUndergarments

Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the loins.

WaistsThighsKneesDepthingMeasuring Jerusalem And The Landprocessmeasurement

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourningAnd all your songs into lamentation;And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loinsAnd baldness on every head.And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

Baldness, Figurative UseBaldnessHairsHeadsMourningSorrowWeepingThe Only ChildNo MusicMourning DeathOnly Child Of PeopleFestivals DisregardedMourning Due To CatastropheBitterness

for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

AncestorsBodygrandfathers

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חלץ 
Chalats 
Usage: 10

חרץ 
Charats (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

ירך 
Yarek 
Usage: 34

כּסל 
Kecel 
Usage: 13

מתן 
Mothen 
Usage: 47

ὀσφύς 
Osphus 
Usage: 7

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