loins

«loins» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: hips; descendants — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

hips; descendants

part of speech

noun (plural)

meaning for a pupil

The lower part of the body between the ribs and the thighs; in these texts it also means the body as the source of children. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "loins" is old-fashioned; we would say "hips" or "waist". In the third sentence it means the descendants of a person.

examples

• And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. (Torah GEN.37.34, JPS 1917) tree →
• This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild-cat-skin about his loins. (Old Indian Legends) tree →
• And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already. (Torah EXO.1.5, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 14 (Torah 12, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
• And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.
• And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
• So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it upon my loins.
• For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «loins» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.