loin
part of speech
noun (a loin, loins)
meaning for a pupil
1) Loin is a cut of meat from the back of an animal, between the ribs and the hips: pork loin, lamb loin. tree →
2) (old, Bible) The loins are the part of the body around the hips and lower belly; «gird up your loins» meant get ready for hard work or a fight. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The loins mean the lower body, the source of children, as in "kings shall come out of thy loins." Wearing sackcloth on the loins is a sign of deep mourning. Girding the loins with strength or a girdle means getting ready for work, and the psalmist feels burdens laid on his loins. Interpretation: Tradition reads the promises to Jacob as God's blessing that his descendants would become a great nation. Mourning with sackcloth shows how deeply Jacob grieved for Joseph. The praise of the woman of worth, who girds her loins with strength, is sung in many homes on Friday night. In the primary lessons: In cooking and shops: pork loin, loin chops, sirloin steak. In the Bible and old stories, people «gird up their loins» (tuck in long robes to run or work) and children are said to come «from the loins» of a father. Phrases: «loin of pork», «loin chops», «gird up your loins», «loincloth».
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 →
- 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 →
- Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; (Torah GEN.35.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms. (Writings PRO.31.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle. (Writings JOB.12.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou didst bring us into the hold; Thou didst lay constraint upon our loins. (Writings PSA.66.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- We had roast pork loin for Sunday dinner. tree →
- The butcher cut four lamb loin chops. tree →
- Sirloin is a cut of beef from near the loin. tree →
- «Gird up your loins,» says an old Bible verse. tree →
- In hot lands some people wore only a loincloth. tree →
- Grandad joked, «Gird your loins, we're cleaning the garage!» tree →
- This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild-cat-skin about his loins. tree →
note
Usually plural «loins» for the body part; that use is old-fashioned. «Sirloin» and «tenderloin» are related meat words. «Loincloth» is a cloth worn round the hips.
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 «loin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.