Loin
כֶּ֫סֶלStrong’s H3689kesel (ke-sel)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kesel is the Hebrew word usually translated “loins”, “stupidity” and “confidence his”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.”
Meaning
- Loins, flank
- Stupidity, folly
- Confidence, hope
How it's translated
- the loins 5
- stupidity 2
- confidence his 1
- loins 1
- confidence my 1
- loins my 1
- confidence their 1
- confidence your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 5
- Job 3
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 3:10And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
- Leviticus 3:15And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
- Leviticus 4:9And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,
- Leviticus 7:4And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
- Job 8:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
- Job 15:27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫סֶל kesel · loin
1) loins, flank 2) stupidity, folly 3) confidence, hope
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “loin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOIN, noun
[Latin clumis.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.