cha.lats denotes the bodily loins, especially as the source of offspring or the place girded with a belt.

The term identifies the loins as a bodily location, most often in scenes of girding or belts; it also marks the loins as the bodily source from which sons, kings, and nations issue, and occurs in depictions of labor-like distress and bodily warmth.

1. Loins as the place of girding or a belt · dominant

   In Isaiah 11:5 the construct form occurs where righteousness and faithfulness are described as a belt at this bodily location. Isaiah 32:11 uses the absolute dual in the command to gird upon the loins, while Job 38:3 and Job 40:7 place the construct form in the repeated command, rendered by the APB as “Gird up your loins like a man.” Isaiah 5:27 likewise places the term in a clause about a belt not being loosened.

   Isaiah 11:5Isaiah 32:11Isaiah 5:27Job 38:3Job 40:7
2. Loins as the source of descendants · common

   The dual construct form marks the bodily source associated with future descendants: kings are said to issue from the addressee in Genesis 35:11, and a son is identified by this relation in 1 Kings 8:19 and 2 Chronicles 6:9. In each case, the APB renders the clause with “your loins.”

   Genesis 35:111 Kings 8:192 Chronicles 6:9
3. Loins in bodily distress and warmth · occasional

   Jeremiah 30:6 depicts every man with hands on his loins in a comparison to labor. Job 31:20 refers to loins blessed and warmed by the fleece of lambs; both occurrences use a dual construct form.

   Jeremiah 30:6Job 31:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “loins” in the descent, girding, distress, and warmth clauses, though Isaiah 5:27 renders the surrounding clause in terms of a belt. Its wording confirms the scene rather than assigning a separate English equivalent in every verse.