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Strong's H4975 מֹתֶן (mothen)

Mothen means “loins” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G4975 — schedon (“almost”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H4975
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 45
Books 17

Strong's H4975 Quick Answer

Strong's H4975 מוֹתֶן (mothen) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mothen (mo'-then) n-m. 1. (properly) the waist or small of the back 2. only in plural the loins It has 45 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include loins, greyhound, and only. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
mothen (mo'-then) n-m. 1. (properly) the waist or small of the back 2. only in plural the loins
Usage
45 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
loins, greyhound, and only

Meaning and Definition

mothen (mo'-then) n-m. 1. (properly) the waist or small of the back 2. only in plural the loins [from an unused root meaning to be slender] KJV: + greyhound, loins, side.

Original Word
מוֹתֶן
Transliteration
mothen
Derivation
Root: מתן
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4975. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

loin

Usage: 1) loins, hips 1a) used with zar.zir (זַרְזִיר "greyhound" H2223) in Pr 30:31; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

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How Strong's H4975 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mothen, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

loins Genesis 37:34 39× greyhound Proverbs 30:31 only Amos 8:10

How Strong's H4975 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 45 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H4975 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H4975 in the Old Testament

45 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 37:34 KJV

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Exodus 12:11 KJV

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 the LORD's passover.

Exodus 28:42 KJV

And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

Usage Excerpts

First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4975.

Genesis 37:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Exodus 12:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 the LORD's passover.
Exodus 28:42 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
Deuteronomy 33:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 him, that they rise not again.
2 Samuel 20:8 Old Testament, KJV
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, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
1 Kings 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
1 Kings 12:10 Old Testament, KJV
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, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
1 Kings 18:46 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
1 Kings 20:32 Old Testament, KJV
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, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
2 Kings 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
2 Kings 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
2 Chronicles 10:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
Nehemiah 4:18 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job 40:16 Old Testament, KJV
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Psalms 66:11 Old Testament, KJV
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
Psalms 69:23 Old Testament, KJV
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Proverbs 30:31 Old Testament, KJV
A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Proverbs 31:17 Old Testament, KJV
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Isaiah 11:5 Old Testament, KJV
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Isaiah 20:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 21:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Isaiah 45:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Jeremiah 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
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 thee before them.
Jeremiah 13:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Jeremiah 13:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Jeremiah 48:37 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Ezekiel 8:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
Ezekiel 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
Ezekiel 9:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
Ezekiel 9:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 me.
Ezekiel 21:6 Old Testament, KJV
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
Ezekiel 23:15 Old Testament, KJV
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 Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
Ezekiel 29:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 madest all their loins to be at a stand.
Ezekiel 44:18 Old Testament, KJV
They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
Ezekiel 47:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 through; the waters were to the loins.
Daniel 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Nahum 2:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 them all gather blackness.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4975, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 10 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H4975 FAQ

What does mothen (מֹתֶן) mean?

Mothen (Strong's H4975) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "loins". mothen (mo'-then) n-m. 1. (properly) the waist or small of the back 2. only in plural the loins

How many times is mothen (מֹתֶן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's H4975 across 17 books.

Where can I study mothen (מֹתֶן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4975 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate mothen (מֹתֶן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as loins, greyhound, and only. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.