Hebrew verb · H247
אָזַר
azaraw-zar'
to gird
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâzar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H247is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H247
to belt
The King James renders it: bind (compass) about, gird (up, with).
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
azar is rendered "to gird". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 2:4The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
1 Samuel 2:4אָ֥זְרוּ
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
- and you girded me2
- gird up2
- gird yourselves2
- and you have girded me1
- gird on1
- girded1
- he girds about me1
- he has girded himself1
- I will gird you1
- is girded1
- the has girded me1
- they gird on1
and 1 more, 16 uses in all
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.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- אֱזָר־2
- אֲאַזֶּרְךָ֖1
- אָז֣וּר1
- אָ֥זְרוּ1
- הַמְאַזְּרֵ֣נִי1
- הִתְאַזָּ֑ר1
- הִתְאַזְּר֣וּ1
- הִֽתְאַזְּר֖וּ1
- וַתְּאַזְּרֵ֣נִי1
- וַֽתְּאַזְּרֵ֥נִי1
- וַתַּזְרֵ֥נִי1
- יַֽאַזְרֵֽנִי׃1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpw2ms/Sp1bs3Hc/Vpw2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqv2ms
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVtv2mp
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HTd/Vprmsc/Sp1bs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpi1cs/Sp2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HVprmpc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqi3ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HVqsmsa
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVtp3ms
1 Samuel
one use
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
- אָ֥זְרוּʾazeruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they gird on
2 Samuel
one use
You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.
- וַתַּזְרֵ֥נִיvatazreniHc/Vpw2ms/Sp1bstagged: and you have girded me
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.
- אָז֣וּרʾazurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: girded
Job
three uses
With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
- יַֽאַזְרֵֽנִי׃yaazreniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he girds about me
Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
- אֱזָר־ʾezor-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: gird up
“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
- אֱזָר־ʾezor-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: gird up
Psalms
five uses
It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.
- הַמְאַזְּרֵ֣נִיhamazerenithe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: the has girded me
You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.
- וַתְּאַזְּרֵ֣נִיvateazereniHc/Vpw2ms/Sp1bstagged: and you girded me
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
- וַֽתְּאַזְּרֵ֥נִיvateazereniHc/Vpw2ms/Sp1bstagged: and you girded me
You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.
- נֶ֝אְזָ֗רne'zarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: is girded
The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- הִתְאַזָּ֑רhitazarverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has girded himself
Isaiah
four uses
Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
- הִתְאַזְּר֣וּhitazeruverb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gird yourselves
- הִֽתְאַזְּר֖וּhitazeruverb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gird yourselves
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
- אֲאַזֶּרְךָ֖ʾaazerkhaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will gird you
Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.
- מְאַזְּרֵ֣יmeazereiverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gird on
Jeremiah
one use
Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
- תֶּאְזֹ֣רte'zorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will gird
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.