Hebrew noun (masculine) · H232
אֵזוֹר
ezoray-zore'
girdle
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼêzôwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H232is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H232
something girt; a belt, also a band
The King James renders it: girdle.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ezor is rendered "girdle". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 1:8“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
2 Kings 1:8וְאֵז֥וֹר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the loincloth6
- waistband of3
- a loincloth1
- a loincloth of1
- a waistband1
- and a loincloth of1
- like the loincloth1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֵזוֹב | ezob | hyssop | Uses10 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֵז֣וֹר3
- הָ֣אֵז֔וֹר2
- אֵ֝ז֗וֹר1
- אֵז֥וֹר1
- אֵז֜וֹר1
- הָאֵז֖וֹר1
- הָאֵז֛וֹר1
- הָאֵז֔וֹר1
- הָאֵז֜וֹר1
- וְאֵז֥וֹר1
- כָּאֵז֣וֹר1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
2 Kings
one use
“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
- וְאֵז֥וֹרveezorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a loincloth of
Job
one use
He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.
- אֵ֝ז֗וֹרʾezornoun · masculine singulartagged: a loincloth
Isaiah
three uses
None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
- אֵז֣וֹרʾezornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: waistband of
Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.
- אֵז֣וֹרʾezornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: waistband of
- אֵז֥וֹרʾezornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: waistband of
Jeremiah
eight uses
This 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.”
- אֵז֣וֹרʾezornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a loincloth of
So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.
- הָאֵז֖וֹרhaezorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the loincloth
“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.”
- הָאֵז֛וֹרhaezorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the loincloth
Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
- הָ֣אֵז֔וֹרhaezorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the loincloth
So 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.
- הָ֣אֵז֔וֹרhaezorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the loincloth
- הָאֵז֔וֹרhaezorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the loincloth
These 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.
- כָּאֵז֣וֹרkaezorpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the loincloth
For 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.
- הָאֵז֜וֹרhaezorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the loincloth
Ezekiel
one use
wearing 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.
- אֵז֜וֹרʾezornoun · masculine singulartagged: a waistband
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.