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חָלָץ

chalats · loins

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2504 · appears 10 times in the Bible

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What it means

chalats (חָלָץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “loins”.

The waist, seen as the source of offspring and strength.

How to say it

cha·lats

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 lower back and waist; from there, in a figure, children come.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • loins ×6
  • hips ×4

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 35:11

    And Elohim said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and an assembly of nations will come from you, and kings will come out from your loins.

  • 1 Kings 8:19

    Only, you shall not build the house, but your son who comes out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.’

  • 2 Chronicles 6:9

    Only you shall not build the house, but your son who will come out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.’

  • Job 31:20

    if his loins did not bless me, and he was not warmed with the fleece of my lambs,

  • Job 38:3

    Gird up, please, your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you make known to me.

  • Job 40:7

    “Gird up, please, your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you make known to me.

  • Isaiah 5:27

    None is weary and none stumbles in it; none slumbers or sleeps; the belt of its hips is not loosened, nor is the strap of its sandals broken.

  • Isaiah 11:5

    And righteousness will be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his hips.

  • Isaiah 32:11

    Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you confident ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and gird yourselves on your hips.

  • Jeremiah 30:6

    Ask, please, and see whether a male gives birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his hips like a woman giving birth, and all faces have turned pale?