חָגַר chagar

Hebrew word for “to gird” · Strong’s H2296 · used 44 times in 41 verses

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Meaning

1) to gird, gird on, gird oneself, put on a belt; 1a)(Qal); 1a1) to gird; 1a2) to gird on, bind on; 1a3) to gird oneself

How it is translated

Glosses given for chagar in context, with how often each is used:

• girded 16
• girded on 3
• gird yourselves 3
• will gird themselves 3
• gird on 2
• one who girds on 2
• gird up 2
• gird 2
• have girded on 2
• gird yourself 2
• will gird 1
• will gird himself 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 18 (3), Leviticus 8 (2), 1 Kings 20 (2), Joel 1 (2), Exodus 12 (1), Exodus 29 (1), Leviticus 16 (1), Deuteronomy 1 (1), Judges 3 (1), 1 Samuel 2 (1)

Forms

• ויחגר 6
• חגור 6
• חגרו 5
• חגר 4
• ויחגרו 3
• וחגרו 3
• חגרים 2
• וחגרת 1
• יחגר 1
• ותחגרו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chagar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שַׂק saq “sackcloth” 12
• מׇתְנַיִם moten “loin” 8
• אַבְנֵט avnet “girdle” 4
• בַּד bad “linen” 4
• יָלַל yalal “to wail” 4
• סָפַד saphad “to mourn” 4
• אֵפוֹד ephod “ephod” 4
• מַד mad “garment” 3
• קׇרְחָה qorchah “bald spot” 3
• מִסְפֵּד misped “mourning” 3
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 5
• לָבֵשׁ lavash “to clothe” 4

Key verses

The verses using chagar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 29:9 — And 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…
• 1 Samuel 2:18 — But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
• 2 Samuel 6:14 — And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
• 2 Kings 9:1 — And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to…
• Psalms 45:3 — Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
• Psalms 76:10 — Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
• Isaiah 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
• Jeremiah 4:8 — For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
• Jeremiah 6:26 — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the…
• Jeremiah 49:3 — Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go…
• Lamentations 2:10 — The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth:…
• Joel 1:13 — Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.