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mo.ten H4975

מׇתְנַ֫יִם (mo.ten) means “loin” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מׇתְנַ֫יִם Hebrew · H4975 47 tagged occurrences in 45 verses

Pronunciation guide: mo'-then Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4975

מׇתְנַ֫יִם · mo.ten · loin

1) loins, hips 1a) used with zar.zir (זַרְזִיר "greyhound" H2223) in Pr 30:31; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from an unused root meaning to be slender; properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins

KJV glosses: [phrase] greyhound, loins, side.

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How translators render H4975

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
around his waist 4
at his side 3
waist 3
and their backs 2
around their waists 2
to be his waist 2
your waist 2
and from his waist 1
around his hips 1
around our waists 1
bodies 1
every waist 1
from his waist 1
from waist 1
heart 1
his side 1
into his belt 1
my body 1
my waist 1
of his loins 1
on our backs 1
on their waists 1
the loins 1
their waists 1
under your belt 1
waist-deep 1
you must be fully dressed for travel 1
your garment 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
by his side 4
loins 4
of his loins 4
thy loins 3
about his loins 2
to the loins 2
upon his loins 2
upon their loins 2
a greyhound 1
and from his loins 1
and madest all their loins 1
and upon the loins 1
from off thy loins 1
from the loins 1
her loins 1
his loins 1
in all loins 1
in his loins 1
it upon thy loins 1
not and make their loins 1
on my loins 1
on our loins 1
on their loins 1
the loins 1
their loins 1
therefore are my loins 1
through the loins 1
upon all loins 1
upon our loins 1
upon thy loins 1
whose loins 1
your loins 1

Verses containing H4975

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  1. Genesis 37:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

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  2. Exodus 12:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

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  3. Exodus 28:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Make linen undergarments to cover their bare flesh, extending from waist to thigh.

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  4. Deuteronomy 33:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Bless his substance, O LORD, and accept the work of his hands. Smash the loins of those who rise against him, and of his foes so they can rise no more.”

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  5. 2 Samuel 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.

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  6. 1 Kings 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.

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  7. 1 Kings 12:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

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  8. 1 Kings 18:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

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  9. 1 Kings 20:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

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  10. 1 Kings 20:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please spare my life.’” And the king answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

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  11. 2 Kings 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.

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  12. 2 Kings 4:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”

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  13. 2 Kings 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

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  14. 2 Chronicles 10:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

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  15. Nehemiah 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And each of the builders worked with his sword strapped at his side. But the trumpeter stayed beside me.

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    Source alternate reference: 4.12

  16. Job 12:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.

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  17. Job 40:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.

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  18. Psalms 66:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.

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  19. Psalms 69:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.

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    Source alternate reference: 69.24

  20. Proverbs 30:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    a strutting rooster; a he-goat; and a king with his army around him.

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  21. Proverbs 31:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    She girds herself with strength and shows that her arms are strong.

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  22. Isaiah 11:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.

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  23. Isaiah 20:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.

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  24. Isaiah 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

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  25. Isaiah 45:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

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  26. Jeremiah 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.

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  27. Jeremiah 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”

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  28. Jeremiah 13:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I bought a loincloth in accordance with the word of the LORD, and I put it around my waist.

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  29. Jeremiah 13:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”

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  30. Jeremiah 13:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.

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  31. Jeremiah 48:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

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  32. Ezekiel 1:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire within it all around. And from what seemed to be His waist down, I saw what looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded Him.

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  33. Ezekiel 8:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.

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  34. Ezekiel 9:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

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  35. Ezekiel 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

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  36. Ezekiel 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the man clothed in linen with the writing kit at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded.”

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  37. Ezekiel 21:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But you, son of man, groan! Groan before their eyes with a broken heart and bitter grief.

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    Source alternate reference: 21.11

  38. Ezekiel 23:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

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  39. Ezekiel 29:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.

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  40. Ezekiel 44:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.

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  41. Ezekiel 47:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through knee-deep water. Again he measured a thousand cubits and led me through waist-deep water.

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  42. Daniel 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I lifted up my eyes, and behold, there was a certain man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.

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  43. Amos 8:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

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  44. Nahum 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!

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    Source alternate reference: 2.2

  45. Nahum 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

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    Source alternate reference: 2.11

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