kesel · loins, confidence

What it means

kesel (כֶּסֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “loins, confidence”.

The loins: the lower back, near the kidneys. In other passages, confidence (or folly).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The part of the body between the ribs and the hip.
2. Lack of judgment, which leads to a foolish path.
3. What one relies on.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• loins ×7
• confidence ×4
• senselessness ×1
• those who have folly ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×5
• Job×3
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1

• Leviticus 3:4

  the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

• Leviticus 3:10

  the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

• Leviticus 3:15

  the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

• Leviticus 4:9

  the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys,

• Leviticus 7:4

  the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

• Job 8:14

  whose confidence is cut off, and whose security is a spider’s house.

• Job 15:27

  because he covered his face with his fat, and made fatness on his loins;

• Job 31:24

  If I have made gold my confidence, and to fine gold said, ‘My security,’

• Psalms 38:7

  For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

• Psalms 49:13

  This is their way, of those who have folly, and of those after them who are pleased with their mouth. Selah.

• Psalms 78:7

  and put in Elohim their confidence, and not forget the works of El, and keep his commandments,

• Proverbs 3:26

  for YHWH will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught.

• Ecclesiastes 7:25

  I turned, I and my heart, to know and to explore and to seek wisdom and the reckoning, and to know the wickedness of senselessness and the witlessness of madness.