TBESH · H0232
אֵזוֹר · e.zor · girdle
1) waist-cloth, the innermost piece of clothing 1a) of God's power over kings (fig.) 1b) of faithfulness (metaph) 2) waistband
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אֵזוֹר (e.zor) means “girdle” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ay-zore' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אֵזוֹר · e.zor · girdle
1) waist-cloth, the innermost piece of clothing 1a) of God's power over kings (fig.) 1b) of faithfulness (metaph) 2) waistband
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from H246 (אֲזִקִּים); something girt; a belt, also a band
KJV glosses: girdle.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the loincloth | 3 |
| a loincloth | 2 |
| belt | 2 |
| loincloth | 2 |
| a belt | 1 |
| belts | 1 |
| it | 1 |
| the belt | 1 |
| the sash | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the girdle | 4 |
| with a girdle | 2 |
| a girdle | 1 |
| for as the girdle | 1 |
| girdle | 1 |
| it and behold the girdle | 1 |
| neither shall the girdle | 1 |
| shall be the girdle | 1 |
| them shall even be as this girdle | 1 |
| with girdles | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 12 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
Read word by wordHe loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.
Read word by wordNone of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
Read word by wordRighteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
Read word by wordSo I bought a loincloth in accordance with the word of the LORD, and I put it around my waist.
Read word by word“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
Read word by wordMany days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
Read word by wordSo I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.
Read word by wordThese evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
Read word by wordFor just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
Read word by wordwearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
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