Loin
מׇתְנַ֫יִםStrong’s H4975moten (mo-ten)
Appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Moten is the Hebrew word usually translated “loins”, “loins your” and “hips his”. It appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:”
Meaning
- Loins, hipsused with zar.zir (זַרְזִיר "greyhound" H2223) in Pr 30:31; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- loins 8
- loins your 6
- hips his 5
- on loins his 3
- at hips his 3
- loins his 2
- more than loins of 2
- on loins their 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 10
- Jeremiah 6
- 1 Kings 5
- Isaiah 4
- 2 Kings 3
- Exodus 2
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Exodus 12:11And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.
- Exodus 28:42And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
- Deuteronomy 33:11Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
- 2 Samuel 20:8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
- 1 Kings 2:5Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
All 45 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מׇתְנַ֫יִם moten · loin
1) loins, hips 1a) used with zar.zir (זַרְזִיר "greyhound" H2223) in Pr 30:31; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
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.