ὀσφύς
loin
‘loin’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G3751 appears in the Dative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
οσφυς — transliterated osphŷs — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “loin.” It first appears in Matthew 3:4. The Greek New Testament uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Hebrews. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3751 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 38%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 25%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Loins 8×
- American Standard Version: Loins 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Waist 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Loins 4×, Loin 2×, Waist 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3751 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3751 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3751 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3751 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to gird, gird about, the loins
- the place where the Hebrews thought the generative power (semen) resided
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; the loin (externally) that is the hip ; internally (by extension) procreative power : - loin.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3751 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀσφὺν osphỳn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 3:4 | 3 |
| ὀσφύος osphýos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 2:30 | 2 |
| ὀσφύας osphýas | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Peter 1:13 | 1 |
| ὀσφύες osphýes | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Luke 12:35 | 1 |
| ὀσφύϊ osphýï | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 7:10 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οσφυς appears 58 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 55 verses in 17 books.
- 58
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 55
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 35:11 ὀσφύς
- Exodus 12:11 ὀσφύς
- Leviticus 3:9 ὀσφύς
- Deuteronomy 33:11 ὀσφύς
- 2 Samuel 20:8 ὀσφύς
- 1 Kings 2:5 ὀσφύς
- 2 Kings 1:8 ὀσφύς
- 2 Chronicles 6:9 ὀσφύς
- Ezra 14:12 ὀσφύς
- Job 12:18 ὀσφύς
- Proverbs 31:17 ὀσφύς
- Isaiah 5:27 ὀσφύς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3751) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 55. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 35:11 ὀσφύς God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
- Genesis 37:34 ὀσφύς Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Exodus 12:11 ὀσφύς This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
- Exodus 28:42 ὀσφύς You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach:
- Leviticus 3:9 ὀσφύς He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,
- Leviticus 7:3 ὀσφύς He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
- Leviticus 8:25 ὀσφύς He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh;
- Leviticus 9:19 ὀσφῦς and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver:
- Deuteronomy 33:11 ὀσφύς Bless, Yahweh, his substance, Accept the work of his hands: Smite through the loins of those who rise up against him, Of those who hate him, that they not rise again.
- 2 Samuel 20:8 ὀσφύς When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his loins in the sheath of it; and as he went forth it fell out.
- 1 Kings 2:5 ὀσφύς Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
- 1 Kings 12:10 ὀσφύς The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell this people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
- 1 Kings 12:24 ὀσφύς Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 18:46 ὀσφύς and the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
- 1 Kings 21:31 ὀσφύς
- 1 Kings 21:32 ὀσφύς
- 2 Kings 1:8 ὀσφύς They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of leather about his loins. He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
- 2 Kings 4:29 ὀσφύς Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man, Don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again: and lay my staff on the face of the child.
- 2 Kings 9:1 ὀσφύς Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
- 2 Chronicles 6:9 ὀσφύς nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
- 2 Chronicles 10:10 ὀσφύς The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
- Ezra 14:12 ὀσφύς
- Job 12:18 ὀσφύς He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.
- Job 38:3 ὀσφύς Brace yourself like a man, For I will question you, then you answer me!
- Job 40:7 ὀσφύς "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
- Job 40:16 ὀσφύς Look now, his strength is in his loins, His force is in the muscles of his belly.
- Proverbs 31:17 ὀσφύς She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.
- Isaiah 5:27 ὀσφύς None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the belt of their loins be untied, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
- Isaiah 11:5 ὀσφύς Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
- Isaiah 15:4 ὀσφύς Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles within him.
- Isaiah 20:2 ὀσφύς at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Isaiah 21:3 ὀσφύς Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can't hear; I am dismayed so that I can't see.
- Isaiah 32:11 ὀσφύς Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.
- Jeremiah 1:17 ὀσφύς You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
- Jeremiah 13:1 ὀσφύς Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your loins, and don't put it in water.
- Jeremiah 13:2 ὀσφύς So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.
- Jeremiah 13:4 ὀσφύς Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
- Jeremiah 13:11 ὀσφύς For as the belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
- Jeremiah 31:37 ὀσφύς Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 37:6 ὀσφύς Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
- Ezekiel 1:27 ὀσφύς I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.
- Ezekiel 8:2 ὀσφύς Then I saw, and, behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
- Ezekiel 9:2 ὀσφύς Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
- Ezekiel 9:3 ὀσφύς The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.
- Ezekiel 9:11 ὀσφύς Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.
- Ezekiel 21:11 ὀσφύς It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.
- Ezekiel 23:15 ὀσφύς girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
- Ezekiel 24:17 ὀσφύς Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.
- Ezekiel 29:7 ὀσφύς When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and did tear all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and mad all their loins to be at a stand.
- Ezekiel 44:18 ὀσφύς They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3751) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
