כֶּסֶל
kesel
loins
Strong's H3689NounHebrewTWOT 1011a

כֶּסֶל (kesel) is a Hebrew noun meaning loins. It appears 13 times in 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3689).

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Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1011a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1011a)loins, stupidity, confidence; fatness, viscera, silliness, trust; flank, folly, hope
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

כֶּ֫סֶל noun, masculine: loins, stupidity, confidence

Strong's H3689 כֶּסֶל: 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
KJV:confidence, flank, folly, hope, loin.

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 1011: כָּסַל kāsal — be, become stupid; be fat, silly; be foolish

See it in Scripture

Leviticus 3:4Job 8:14Psalms 78:7

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