מׇתְנַיִם moten

Hebrew word for “loin” · Strong’s H4975 · used 47 times in 45 verses

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Meaning

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

How it is translated

Glosses given for moten in context, with how often each is used:

• loins 31
• hips 14
• more than the loins 2

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 13 (4), Ezekiel 9 (3), 1 Kings 20 (2), Nahum 2 (2), Genesis 37 (1), Exodus 12 (1), Exodus 28 (1), Deuteronomy 33 (1), 2 Samuel 20 (1), 1 Kings 2 (1)

Forms

• מתנים 9
• במתניו 7
• מתניו 7
• מתניך 6
• במתניהם 3
• מתני 3
• ממתני 2
• במתנינו 2
• מתניכם 1
• ממתנים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with moten more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֵזוֹר ezor “girdle” 8
• חָגַר chagar “to gird” 8
• שַׂק saq “sackcloth” 6
• בַּד bad “linen” 5
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 8
• קֶסֶת qeset “pot” 3
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 6
• נַעַל naal “sandal” 3
• הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 6
• קְטֹן qoten “little finger” 2
• עָבָה avah “to thicken” 2
• חַשְׁמַל chashmal “amber” 2

Key verses

The verses using moten that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 37:34 — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
• 1 Kings 2:5 — Moreover 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…
• 1 Kings 20:31 — And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our…
• 2 Kings 9:1 — And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to…
• Isaiah 11:5 — And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
• Isaiah 20:2 — At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he…
• Isaiah 21:3 — Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was…
• Isaiah 45:1 — Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open…
• Jeremiah 1:17 — Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
• Jeremiah 48:37 — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
• Amos 8:10 — And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and…
• Nahum 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.