Lexical Summary mothen: loins Original Word: מֹתֶןTransliteration: mothen Phonetic Spelling: (mo'-then) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: loins Meaning: the waist, small of the back, the loins Strong's Concordance to be slender From an unused root meaning to be slender; properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins -- + greyhound, loins, side. Brown-Driver-Briggs H4975. mothen מָתְנַ֫יִם noun masculine dual loins (Arabic back, the two sides of the back, etc.; Syriac ; — absolute ׳מ Deuteronomy 33:11 7t., מָתְנָ֑יִם Ezekiel 29:7; 47:4; construct מָתְנֵי Jeremiah 13:11 + 3t.; suffix מָתְנַי Isaiah 21:3, מָתְנָ֑י Jeremiah 13:2; מָתְנֵיהֶם 1Kings + Jeremiah 20:32 4t., etc.; — loins: 1. a. place of wearing girdle 1 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 1:8; Jeremiah 13:1-2, 4, 11; Ezekiel 23:15; figurative Isaiah 11:5 righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins. b. hence place of things attached to girdle: — sword girded on (אסר על, חגר 2 Samuel 20:8; Nehemiah 4:12; opposed to, אֲפַתֵּחַ מְלָכִים וּמָתְנֵי Isaiah 45:1 and the loins of kings I will loosen, i e. will disarm them (׳י before Cyrus; compare Che); ink-horn Ezekiel 9:2-3, 11. c. girding up loins = make ready for action, מָתְנָיו וַיְשַׁנֵּס 1 Kings 18:46; more often מ ׳חָגַר 2 Kings 4:29; 9:1; Exodus 12:11 (P), Daniel 10:5; מ ׳אָזַר Jeremiah 1:17. d. מ ׳זַרְזִיר Proverbs 30:31 that which is girt in the loins, i.e. probably either a greyhound Ew Bö De (contracted, as if by a belt), or a war-horse, charger, Bo Ges Hi Str Wild (with a saddle); compare also זרזיר, p. 267 above; text perhaps corrupt (Wild). e. girded with sackcloth (in mourning) Genesis 37:34 (J), Amos 8:10; Isaiah 20:2; 1 Kings 20:31-32, Jeremiah 48:37. f. linen breeches of priests were to extend יְרֵכַיִם וְעַד מִמָּתְנַיִם Exodus 28:42 (P); to be ׳עַלמָֿת Ezekiel 44:18; loins of slaves are girt with waistcloth, compare Job 12:18 (see also אֵזוֺר). g. in General of the middle of the body, מָת ׳מֵי Ezekiel 47:4 (i.e. water reaching to the loins); so of the appearance of ׳י in Ezekiel's visions 1:27 (twice in verse); 8:2 (twice in verse). 2. a. loins as seat of strength, Deuteronomy 33:11; 1 Kings 12:10 2 Chronicles 10:10; מָתְנַיִם חַזֵּק Nahum 2:2 ("" כֹּחַ אַמֵּץ); בְּמָתְנָיו כֹּחוֺ Job 40:16 (of hippopotamus); in combination with 1a (figurative) מ ׳בְּעוֺז חָֽגְרָה Proverbs 31:17 she girdeth her loins with strength, she puts on energy with her girdle; compare also מ ׳בְּשִׁבְרוֺן Ezekiel 21:11 sigh with breaking of loins, i.e. in entire collapse of strength; so וּמ ׳הַמְעַ֑ד תָּמִיד Psalm 69:24 and make their loins continually to shake, make them totter; compare Ezekiel 29:7 (where read וְהִמְעַדְתָּ for וְהַעֲמַדְתָּ, see מָעַד). b. as seat of keenest pain, due to grief or dread Nahum 2:11; Isaiah 21:3 (as in travail); so probably also Psalm 66:11 (compare Bae; and see מוּעָקָה below עוק). |