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# loins

noun (plural)

«loins» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

The lower part of the body between the ribs and the thighs; in these texts it also means the body as the source of children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loins/#m1)

### Then and now

Today "loins" is old-fashioned; we would say "hips" or "waist". In the third sentence it means the descendants of a person.

### Examples

- And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. (Torah GEN.37.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loins/#x1)
- This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild-cat-skin about his loins. (Old Indian Legends) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loins/#x2)
- And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already. (Torah EXO.1.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loins/#x3)

### Note

Today: hips; descendants.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «loins» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loins/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«loins» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/loins.html) on Mova free.