Genesis 37:34
And Heel is rending his garments and is putting a sack on his double-loins,1180 and is mourning-himself upon his builder the days of abundant-ones.
Footnote:
| 1180 | Strong’s #4975, mothenayyim. מָתְנַ֫יִם noun masculine dual loins. Interestingly there is a feminine noun for the same thing, chalatsayyim חֲלָצָ֑יִם which is also dual used in Gen. 35:11. From Thayer’s Greek Lexicon we are given a second definition: “2. a loin, the Sept. several times for חֲלָצַיִם, the (two) loins, where the Hebrews thought the generative power (semen) resided (?); hence, καρπός τῆς ὀσφύος, fruit of the loins, offspring, Acts 2:30 (see καρπός, 1 at the end); ἐξέρχεσθαι ἐκ τῆς ὀσφύος τίνος, to come forth out of one's loins
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