מׇתְנַ֫יִם
mo.ten
“loin”
Definition
properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
from an unused root meaning to be slender;
- loins, hips 1a) used with zar.zir (*זַרְזִיר *"greyhound" H2223) in ; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
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Occurrences
מׇתְנַ֫יִם appears 40 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
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Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
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