- Original: ὀσφύς
- Transliteration: Osphus
- Phonetic: os-foos'
- Definition:
1. the hip (loin)
a. to gird, gird about, the loins
2. a loin, the (two) loins
a. the place where the hebrews thought the generative power (semen) resided
- Origin: of uncertain affinity
- TDNT entry: 13:16,7
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine
- Strong's: Of uncertain affinity; the loin (externally) that is the hip; internally (by extension) procreative power: - loin.
Total KJV Occurrences: 7
• loins, 7
Mat 3:4; Mar 1:6; Act 2:30; Eph 6:14;
Hebrews 7:5;
Hebrews 7:10;
1 Peter 1:13