Strong's #4975: mothen (pronounced mo'-then)

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 Hebrew Lexicon:

môthen

1) loins, hips

1a) used with H2223 in Proverbs 30:31; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to be slender

Usage:

This word is used 47 times:

 

Genesis 37:34: "his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many"
Exodus 12:11: "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand;"
Exodus 28:42: "breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs"
Deuteronomy 33:11: "the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again."
2 Samuel 20:8: "with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out."
1 Kings 2:5: "of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet."
1 Kings 12:10: "unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins."
1 Kings 18:46: "on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to"
1 Kings 20:31: "let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to"
1 Kings 20:32: "So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king"
2 Kings 1:8: "him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said,"
2 Kings 4:29: "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way:"
2 Kings 9:1: "of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box"
2 Chronicles 10:10: "for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's"
Nehemiah 4:18: "had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded the trumpet was by"
Job 12:18: "the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle."
Job 40:16: "Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly."
Psalms 66:11: "us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins."
Psalms 69:23: "Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."
Proverbs 30:31: " A greyhound; a he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up."
Proverbs 31:17: "She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms."
Isaiah 11:5: "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins."
Isaiah 20:2: "and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from"
Isaiah 21:3: "Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs"
Isaiah 45:1: "nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates;"
Jeremiah 1:17: "Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all"
Jeremiah 13:1: "girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water."
Jeremiah 13:2: "of the LORD, and put it on my loins."
Jeremiah 13:4: "thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide"
Jeremiah 13:11: "the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto"
Jeremiah 48:37: "the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth."
Ezekiel 1:27: "round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance"
Ezekiel 1:27: "it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw"
Ezekiel 8:2: "as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins"
Ezekiel 8:2: "from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance"
Ezekiel 9:2: "them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside"
Ezekiel 9:3: "clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;"
Ezekiel 9:11: "with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done"
Ezekiel 21:6: "son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes."
Ezekiel 23:15: "Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes"
Ezekiel 29:7: "upon thee, thou didst broke, and madest all their loins to be at a stand."
Ezekiel 44:18: "linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat."
Ezekiel 47:4: "Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins."
Daniel 10:5: "man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:"
Amos 8:10: "sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head;"
Nahum 2:1: "the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily."
Nahum 2:10: "smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness."