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Lexicon :: Strong's G2223 - zōnē

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ζώνη
Transliteration
zōnē (Key)
Pronunciation
dzo'-nay
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably akin to the base of ζυγός (G2218)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:302,702

Strong’s Definitions

ζώνη zṓnē, dzo'-nay; probably akin to the base of G2218; a belt; by implication, a pocket:—girdle, purse.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G2223 in the following manner: girdle (6x), purse (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G2223 in the following manner: girdle (6x), purse (2x).
  1. a girdle, belt, serving not only to gird on flowing garments but also, since it was hollow, to carry money in

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ζώνη zṓnē, dzo'-nay; probably akin to the base of G2218; a belt; by implication, a pocket:—girdle, purse.
STRONGS G2223:
ζώνη, -ης, , (ζώννυμι, [from Homer down], a girdle, belt, serving not only to gird on flowing garments, Matthew 3:4; Mark 1:6; Acts 21:11; Revelation 1:13; Revelation 15:6; but also, since it was hollow, to carry money in [A. V. purse]: Matthew 10:9; Mark 6:8; Plutarch, mor., p. 665 b. quaest. conviv. 4:2, 3, 2; "argentum in zonis habentes," Livy 33, 29. [B. D. under the word Girdle.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
3:4; 10:9
Mark
1:6; 6:8
Acts
21:11
Revelation
1:13; 15:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2223 matches the Greek ζώνη (zōnē),
which occurs 19 times in 19 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:4 - “These are the garments which they shall make: a [fn]breastpiece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban and a sash, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, in order for him to minister as priest to Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:39 -

“You shall weave the tunic of checkered work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of a [fn]weaver.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:40 -

“For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics; you shall also make sashes for them, and you shall make [fn]caps for them, for glory and for beauty.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:9 - “You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind [fn]caps on them, and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. So you shall [fn]ordain Aaron and his sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:29 - and the sash of fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material, the work of the [fn]weaver, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:7 - And he put the tunic on him and girded him with the sash and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod, [fn]with which he tied it to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:13 - Next Moses brought Aaron’s sons near and clothed them with tunics and girded them with sashes and bound [fn]caps on them, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:4 - “He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and the linen undergarments shall be next to his [fn]body, and he shall be girded with the linen sash and attired with the linen turban (these are holy garments). Then he shall bathe his [fn]body in water and put them on.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:13 - and you shall have a [fn]spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn [fn]to cover up your excrement.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:5 -

“Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also [fn]shed the blood of war in peace. And he put the blood of war on his belt [fn]about his [fn]waist, and on his sandals [fn]on his feet.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - And they said to him, “He was a hairy man with a leather girdle girded about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:21 -

Now all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. And they summoned all who were able to [fn]put on armor and older, and they stood on the border.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:18 -

“He opens the [fn]bond of kings

And binds their loins with a belt.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:19 -

Let it be to him as a garment with which he wraps himself,

And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:24 -

Now it will be that instead of [fn]sweet perfume there will be the smell of rot;

Instead of a belt, a rope;

Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp;

Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;

And branding instead of beauty.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 -

No one in it is weary or stumbles,

None slumbers or sleeps;

Nor is the belt at its waist undone,

Nor its sandal strap broken.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2 - And behold, six men were coming from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a [fn]scribe’s case at his loins. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:3 -

Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the house of Yahweh. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the [fn]scribe’s case.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:11 -

Then behold, the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the scribe’s [fn]case responded with a word, saying, “I have done just as You have commanded me.”

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