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# loins

«loins» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **hips; descendants** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

hips; descendants

### part of speech

noun (plural)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loins/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loins/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 14 (Torah 12, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1214/)
- [And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.4/)
- [And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.257/)
- [So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it upon my loins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.372/)
- [For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1273/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «loins» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/loins/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.