אָזַר azar
Hebrew word for “to gird” · Strong’s H247 · used 16 times in 15 verses
Meaning
1) gird, encompass, equip, clothe;
How it is translated
Glosses given for azar in context, with how often each is used:
- girded 3
- gird up 2
- gird yourselves 2
- will gird 2
- gird on 1
- have girded 1
- girds about 1
- one who has girded 1
- who is girded 1
- has girded himself 1
- who gird on 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Psalms 18 (2), 1 Samuel 2 (1), 2 Samuel 22 (1), 2 Kings 1 (1), Job 30 (1), Job 38 (1), Job 40 (1), Psalms 30 (1), Psalms 65 (1), Psalms 93 (1)
Forms
- אזר 2
- ותאזרני 2
- התאזרו 2
- אזרו 1
- ותזרני 1
- אזור 1
- יאזרני 1
- המאזרני 1
- נאזר 1
- התאזר 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with azar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חַיִל chayil “strength” 4
- חָלָץ chalats “loin” 2
- כָּרַע kara “to bow” 2
- מׇתְנַיִם moten “loin” 2
- חָתַת chatat “to to be dismayed” 2
- גָּבֶר gaver “great man” 2
- קוּם qum “to arise” 3
- כֹּחַ koach “strength” 2
- שָׁאַל shaal “to ask” 2
- יָדַע yada “to know” 3
- כּוּן kun “to establish” 2
- מִלְחָמָה milchamah “battle” 2
Key verses
The verses using azar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 1 Samuel 2:4 — The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
- 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 38:3 — Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
- Psalms 18:32 — It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
- Psalms 18:39 — For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
- Psalms 30:11 — Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
- Psalms 65:6 — Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
- Psalms 93:1 — The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it…
- Isaiah 8:9 — Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces;…
- Isaiah 45:5 — I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
- Isaiah 50:11 — Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This…
- Jeremiah 1:17 — Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
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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.