Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3689
כֶּסֶל
keselkeh'-sel
loin
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: keçel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3689is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3689
properly, fatness, i.e. by implication (literally) the loin (as the seat of the leaf fat) or (generally) the viscera; also (figuratively) silliness or (in a good sense) trust
The King James renders it: confidence, flank, folly, hope, loin.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kesel is rendered "loin". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 3:4both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:4הַכְּסָלִ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's thirteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the loins5
- stupidity2
- confidence his1
- confidence my1
- confidence their1
- in confidence your1
- loins1
- loins my1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַכְּסָלִ֑ים5
- בְכִסְלֶ֑ךָ1
- כֵּ֣סֶל1
- כֶּ֔סֶל1
- כָֽסֶל׃1
- כִּסְל֑וֹ1
- כְ֭סָלַי1
- כִּסְלִ֑י1
- כִּ֫סְלָ֥ם1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural5HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
Leviticus
five uses
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
- הַכְּסָלִ֑יםhakesalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the loins
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
- הַכְּסָלִ֑יםhakesalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the loins
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
- הַכְּסָלִ֑יםhakesalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the loins
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys—
- הַכְּסָלִ֑יםhakesalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the loins
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
- הַכְּסָלִ֑יםhakesalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the loins
Job
three uses
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
- כִּסְל֑וֹkislonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: confidence his
Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
- כָֽסֶל׃khaselnoun · masculine singulartagged: loins
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
- כִּסְלִ֑יkislinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: confidence my
Psalms
three uses
For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
- כְ֭סָלַיkhesalainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: loins my
This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah
- כֵּ֣סֶלkeselnoun · masculine singulartagged: stupidity
that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
- כִּ֫סְלָ֥םkislamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: confidence their
Proverbs
one use
for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
- בְכִסְלֶ֑ךָvekhislekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: in confidence your
Ecclesiastes
one use
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
- כֶּ֔סֶלkeselnoun · masculine singulartagged: stupidity
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.