חָלָץ (ḥālāṣ) is a Hebrew noun meaning loins. It appears 11 times in 6 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2504).

Also rendered

• loin

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 668b)

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חָלָץ noun, feminine: loins

• 1.as seat of virility
• 2.as girded
• 3.as seat of pains, like a woman in travail

Strong's H2504 חָלָץ: the loins (as the seat of vigor)
KJV:loins, reins.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 668: חָלַץ ḥālaṣ — equip; equipped; be, go equipped; pull off, strip, depart, deliver, present, strengthen; arm, draw out, make fat, loose, prepared, put off, take away, withdraw self

• חָלַץ ḥālaṣ — draw off

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