Belt
מֵ֫זַחStrong’s H4206mezach (me-zach)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mezach is the Hebrew word usually translated “belt of”, “waistband” and “restraint”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.”
Meaning
- Girdle
- Girdle
How it's translated
- and belt of 1
- and to a waistband 1
- a restraint 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מֵ֫זַח mezach · belt
girdle Also means: ma.zi.ach (מְזִיחַ "belt" H4206B)
מְזִיחַ maziach · belt
girdle Another spelling of me.zach (מֵ֫זַח "belt" H4206A)
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.