# מֹתֶן (moten)

Israeli respelling: mo-ten. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4975. 45 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins

King James renderings: [phrase] greyhound, loins, side.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/moten-h4975

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 37:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/34) — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- [Exodus 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/11) — And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is…
- [Exodus 28:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/28/42) — And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
- [Deuteronomy 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/11) — Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate…
- [2 Samuel 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/8) — When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, an…
- [1 Kings 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/5) — Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner t…
- [1 Kings 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/10) — And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying,…
- [1 Kings 18:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/46) — And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
- [1 Kings 20:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/31) — And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, pu…
- [1 Kings 20:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/32) — So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith…
- [2 Kings 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/1/8) — And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
- [2 Kings 4:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/29) — Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if an…
- [2 Kings 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/1) — And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine…
- [2 Chronicles 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/10/10) — And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy…
- [Nehemiah 4:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/18) — For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
- [Job 12:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/18) — He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
- [Job 40:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/40/16) — Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
- [Psalms 66:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/66/11) — Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
- [Psalms 69:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/23) — Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
- [Proverbs 30:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/31) — A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
- [Proverbs 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/17) — She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
- [Isaiah 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/5) — And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
- [Isaiah 20:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/20/2) — At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from…
- [Isaiah 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/3) — Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the he…
- [Isaiah 45:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/1) — Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of…
- [Jeremiah 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/17) — Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound t…
- [Jeremiah 13:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/1) — Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
- [Jeremiah 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/2) — So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
- [Jeremiah 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/4) — Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
- [Jeremiah 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/11) — For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah…
- [Jeremiah 48:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/37) — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
- [Ezekiel 1:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/27) — And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from t…
- [Ezekiel 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/2) — Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even u…
- [Ezekiel 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/2) — And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and…
- [Ezekiel 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/3) — And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man c…
- [Ezekiel 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/11) — And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded…
- [Ezekiel 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/6) — Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
- [Ezekiel 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/15) — Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Ba…
- [Ezekiel 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/7) — When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and m…
- [Ezekiel 44:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/18) — They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thi…
- [Ezekiel 47:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/4) — Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me…
- [Daniel 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/5) — Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
- [Amos 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/10) — And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness…
- [Nahum 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/1) — He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
- [Nahum 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/10) — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of the…