Girdle
אֵזוֹרStrong’s H0232ezor (e-zor)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ezor is the Hebrew word usually translated “loincloth”, “waistband of” and “loincloth of”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
Meaning
- Waist-cloth, the innermost piece of clothingof God's power over kings (fig.) · of faithfulness (metaph)
- Waistband
How it's translated
- the loincloth 5
- waistband of 3
- and a loincloth of 1
- a loincloth 1
- a loincloth of 1
- like the loincloth 1
- loincloth 1
- a waistband 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 7
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Job 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 12:18He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
- Isaiah 5:27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
- Isaiah 11:5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
- Jeremiah 13:1Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
- Jeremiah 13:2So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
- Jeremiah 13:4Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
Hebrew dictionary
אֵזוֹר ezor · girdle
1) waist-cloth, the innermost piece of clothing 1a) of God's power over kings (fig.) 1b) of faithfulness (metaph) 2) waistband
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.