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# כֶּסֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3689

**loins** — used 7 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/1499/3689/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫סֶל: n.m. 1.loins stupidity confidence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3689/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1.loins, 2. stupidity, 3. confidence (NH id. loin; Aramaic כִּסְלָא id.);— loins כָּ֑סֶל Jb 15:27; pl. כְּסָלִים Lv 3:4, 10, 15; 4:9; 7:4; sf. כְּסָלַי ψ 38:8. stupidity, folly כ׳ Ec 7:25 (‖ סִכְלוּת), כֵּסֶל ψ 49:14. confidence, sf. כִּסְלִי Jb 31:24; כִּסְלֶ֑ךָ Pr 3:26; כִּסְלוֹ Jb 8:14; כִּסְלָם ψ 78:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: loins (6); loin\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 38:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.8/#tree)

כִּֽי־כְ֭סָלַי מָלְא֣וּ נִקְלֶ֑ה וְאֵ֥ין מְ֝תֹ֗ם בִּבְשָׂרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) loins my they.are.full burning.\[pain\] and there.\[is\].not soundness in flesh my

*JPS 1917:* For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.

[Job 15:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.27/#tree)

כִּֽי־כִסָּ֣ה פָנָ֣יו בְּחֶלְבּ֑וֹ וַיַּ֖עַשׂ פִּימָ֣ה עֲלֵי־כָֽסֶל׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.has.covered face his with fat his and he.has.made fat on loin\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3689.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3689/): 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).