Belt
חֲגוֹרStrong’s H2290chagor (cha-gor)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chagor is the Hebrew word usually translated “belt”, “loin coverings” and “belt his”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”
Meaning
- Girdle, belt
How it's translated
- and a belt 2
- a belt 2
- loin coverings 1
- belt his 1
- a belt of 1
- on belt his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 18:4And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
- 2 Samuel 18:11And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
- 2 Samuel 20:8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
- 1 Kings 2:5Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
- 2 Kings 3:21And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
- Proverbs 31:24She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲגוֹר chagor · belt
girdle, belt Another spelling of ha.go.rah (חֲגוֹרָה "belt" H2290B)
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.