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# חָלָץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2504

**loins** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

loins [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2504/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלָץ: loins [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2504/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] only dual, loins (as seat of strength, vigour; cf. Aramaic חַרְצָא hip, loin, Syriac ܚܰܨܳܐ, NöZMG 1886, 741)—חֲלָצָ֑יִם Is 32:11; sf. חֲלָצֶיךָ Gn 35:11 + 4 times; חֲלָצָיו Is 5:27 + 2 times; + חלצו Kt Jb 31:20, Qr חֲלָצָיו;—loins: as seat of virility יצא מן ח׳ Gn 35:11 (P), 1 K 8:19 2 Ch 6:9. as girded אֱזָר־נָא כְּגֶבֶר ח׳ Jb 38:3; 40:7; אֵזוֹר חֲלָצָיו Is 5:27 (v. אֵזוֹר), וַחֲג֫וֹרָה עַל חֲלָצָ֑יִם 32:11, cf. Jb 31:20 where the clothed loins are conceived as blessing charitable giver; metaph. Is 11:5 faithfulness waistcloth of his loins (‖ מתניו). as seat of pains, like a woman’s in travail, Je 30:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: loins (8); his loins (1); its loins (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.7/#tree)

אֱזָר־נָ֣א כְגֶ֣בֶר חֲלָצֶ֑יךָ אֶ֝שְׁאָלְךָ֗ וְהוֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* gird.up please like a.man loins your I will.ask.you and make known.to.me

*JPS 1917:* Gird up thy loins now like a man; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.

[Isaiah 32:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.11/#tree)

חִרְדוּ֙ שַֽׁאֲנַנּ֔וֹת רְגָ֖זָה בֹּֽטְח֑וֹת פְּשֹׁ֣טָֽה וְעֹ֔רָה וַחֲג֖וֹרָה עַל־חֲלָצָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* tremble O.carefree.\[women\] be.agitated O.confident.\[women\] strip.off and lay.yourself.bare and gird on loins

*JPS 1917:* Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye confident ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2504.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2504/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).