fruit of one's loins

Meaning: (chieflyliterary,idiomatic)One'schildor, collectively, one'schildrenordescendants.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Acts2:29-30:Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David . . . being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of thefruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.1889,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 6, inMicah Clarke:"Come into the yard with me, Micah," quoth my father. ". . . [I]f I am old and worn, there is thefruit of my loinsto stand in my place and to wield the same sword in the same cause. You shall go in my place, Micah."c.1950,Kay Boyle, “Adam's Death”, inFifty Stories,1992edition,→ISBN, page541:And behind the mare, or beside her, or else cavorting ahead, came a slim black colt, thefruit of her loins, without bridle or rope.

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