Girdle
אַבְנֵטStrong’s H0073avnet (av-net)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avnet is the Hebrew word usually translated “sash”, “sashes” and “sash of”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.”
Meaning
- Girdle, sash, waistbandof high priest · of other priests · of high official
How it's translated
- and a sash 2
- a sash 2
- sashes 1
- the sash 1
- with the sash 1
- and with a sash of 1
- and sash your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 5
- Leviticus 3
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:39And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
- Exodus 28:40And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
- Exodus 29:9And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
- Exodus 39:29And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:7And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
- Leviticus 8:13And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Hebrew dictionary
אַבְנֵט avnet · girdle
1) girdle, sash, waistband 1a) of high priest 1b) of other priests 1c) of high official
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “girdle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GIRD'LE, noun
- A band or belt; something drawn round the waist of a person, and tied or buckled; as a girdle of fine lines; a leathern girdle
- Inclosure; circumference.
- The zodiac.
- A round iron plate for baking.
All definitions and other forms of “girdle”
- Among jewelers, the line which encompasses the stone, parallel to the horizon.
GIRD'LE, verb transitive
To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
- To inclose; to enrivon; to shut in.
- In America, to make a circular incision, like a belt, through the bark and alburnum of a tree to kill it.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.