Strong's #3751: osphus (pronounced os-foos')

of uncertain affinity; the loin (externally), i.e. the hip; internally (by extension) procreative power:--loin.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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osphus

1) the hip (loin)

1a) to gird, gird about, the loins

2) a loin, the (two) loins

2a) the place where the Hebrews thought the generative power (semen) resided

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: of uncertain affinity

Citing in TDNT: 5:496, 736

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Matthew 3:4: "girdle about his loins; and his meat was"
Mark 1:6: "of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and"
Luke 12:35: "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;"
Acts 2:30: "that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ"
Ephesians 6:14: "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and"
Hebrews 7:5: "they come out of the loins of Abraham:"
Hebrews 7:10: "yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met"
1 Peter 1:13: "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope"