Kesel כֶּ֫סֶל

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Kesel (Hebrew כֶּ֫סֶל, Strong's H3689) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “loin”. It occurs 13 times in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) loins, flank
2) stupidity, folly
3) confidence, hope

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	flanks (6), hope (3), folly (2), loins (1), confidence (1)
BSB	loins (5), confidence (1), his waistline (1), my trust (1), my loins (1), their confidence (1), your confidence (1), stupidity (1)

Every verse with Kesel, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus 3:4
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.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 3:10
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.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 3:15
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.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 4:9
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,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 7:4
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

Job 8:14
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
Job 15:27
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

Psalm 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Psalm 49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah
Psalm 78:7
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

Proverbs 3:26
For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

Ecclesiastes 7:25
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: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.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).