אֵזוֹר ezor
Hebrew word for “girdle” · Strong’s H232 · used 14 times in 12 verses
Meaning
1) waist-cloth, the innermost piece of clothing; 1a) of God's power over kings (fig.); 1b) of faithfulness (metaph); 2) waistband
How it is translated
Glosses given for ezor in context, with how often each is used:
- loincloth 9
- waistband 4
- like the loincloth 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Jeremiah 13 (7), 2 Kings 1 (1), Job 12 (1), Isaiah 5 (1), Isaiah 11 (1), Ezekiel 23 (1)
Forms
- אזור 6
- האזור 6
- ואזור 1
- כאזור 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with ezor more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מׇתְנַיִם moten “loin” 8
- פְּרָת perat “Euphrates” 3
- טָמַן taman “to hide” 3
- קָנָה qanah “to buy” 3
- חָלָץ chalats “loin” 2
- הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 5
- צָלֵחַ tsalech “to prosper” 2
- שָׁם sham “there” 3
- פָּתַח patach “to open” 2
- לָקַח laqach “to take” 3
- שׂוּם sum “to set” 2
- קוּם qum “to arise” 2
Key verses
The verses using ezor that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 2 Kings 1:8 — 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.
- Job 12:18 — He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
- Isaiah 5:27 — None 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…
- Isaiah 11:5 — And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
- Jeremiah 13:1 — Thus 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 13:2 — So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
- Jeremiah 13:4 — Take 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.
- Jeremiah 13:6 — And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
- Jeremiah 13:7 — Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
- Jeremiah 13:10 — This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them,…
- Jeremiah 13:11 — For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD;…
- Ezekiel 23:15 — 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…
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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.