Word

חָלָץ

châlâts · H2504 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

loins

Area located on both sides of spine between false ribs and hip-bone; part of human body; often used to indicate the entire waist region of the body; euphemism for male genitals

Examples
Job 31:20 If his waist has not thanked me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
Job 38:3 “Now tighten the belt on your waist like a man, And I shall ask you, and you inform Me!
Job 40:7 “Now tighten the belt on your waist like a man; I will ask you, and you instruct Me.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

9 occurrences in 2 groups

ךָyour 5
הוּhis 4

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בָרַךְto bless 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אָזַרto be girded 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָדhand, power 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 6
עַלon, upon, over, against 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵזוֹרbelt, loincloth 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word

ὀσφῦς osphŷs · G3751 · waist, genitals, loins: Greek ὀσφῦς (osphŷs, G3751) is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew חָלָץ (châlâts, H2504), both denoting the anatomical loins/hip region and by extension the seat of generative power; the terms are direct translation equivalents across the two languages with identical semantic range covering both the external body part and its procreative associations.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָלַץ châlats · H2502 · to take off, to take out, to remove · 44×חָלָץchâlâts · H2504מַחֲלָצָה machălâtsâh · H4254 · festive robes · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2504. chalats [חָלָץ] noun [feminine] only dual, loins (as seat of strength, vigour;…

H2504. chalats
[חָלָץ] noun [feminine] only dual, loins (as seat of strength, vigour; compare Aramaic חַרְצָא hip, loin, Syriac , NöZMG 1886, 741) — חֲלָצָ֑יִם Isa 32:11; suffix חֲלָצֶיךָ Gen 35:11 Gen 35:4t.; חֲלָצָיו Isa 5:27 Isa 5:2t.; חלצו Kt Job 31:20, Qr חֲלָצָיו; — loins:
1 as seat of virility ח מן ׳יצא Gen 35:11 (P), 1Ki 8:19; 2Ch 6:9.
2 as girded ח כְּגֶבֶר ׳נָא אֱזָרֿ Job 38:3; Job 40:7; חֲלָצָיו אֵזוֺר Isa 5:27 (see אֵזוֺר), חֲלָצָ֑יִם עַל וַחֲג֫וֺרָה Isa 32:11, compare Job 31:20 where the clothed loins are conceived as blessing charitable giver; metaphor Isa 11:5 faithfulness waist-cloth of his loins (|| מתניו).
3 as seat of pains, like a woman's in travail, Jer 30:6.
[חֲרַץ] noun [masculine] loin (see Biblical Hebrew חָלָץ, √ II. [חָלַץ]); — suffix חַרְצֵהּ Dan 5:6 the joints of his loin (see קְטַר).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0