Belted
חָגוֹרStrong’s H2289chagor (cha-gor)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chagor is the Hebrew word usually translated “girded of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:”
Meaning
- Clothed, girded, girt
How it's translated
- girded of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חָגוֹר chagor · belted
clothed, girded, girt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “belt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BELT, noun
[Latin balteus.]
- A girdle; a band, usually of leather, in which a sword or other weapon is hung.
- A narrow passage, or strait between the isle of Zealand and that of Funen at the entrance of the Baltic, usually called the Great belt The Lesser belt is the passage between the isle of Funen, and the coast of Jutland.
- A bandage or band used by surgeons for various purposes.
- In astronomy, certain girdles or rings, which surround the planet Jupiter, are called belts.
All definitions and other forms of “belt”
- A disease among sheep, cured by cutting off the tail, laying the sore bare, then casting mold on it, and applying tar and goose grease.
BELT, verb transitive
To encircle.
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.