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Lexicon :: Strong's H2296 - ḥāḡar

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חָגַר
Transliteration
ḥāḡar
Pronunciation
khaw-gar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 604

Strong’s Definitions

חָגַר châgar, khaw-gar'; a primitive root; to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.):—be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, × on every side.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x

The KJV translates Strong's H2296 in the following manner: gird (31x), appointed (3x), gird on (3x), gird up (2x), be afraid (1x), put (1x), restrain (1x), on every side (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x
The KJV translates Strong's H2296 in the following manner: gird (31x), appointed (3x), gird on (3x), gird up (2x), be afraid (1x), put (1x), restrain (1x), on every side (1x).

  1. to gird, gird on, gird oneself, put on a belt

    1. (Qal)

      1. to gird

      2. to gird on, bind on

      3. to gird oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָגַר châgar, khaw-gar'; a primitive root; to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.):—be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, × on every side.
STRONGS H2296: Abbreviations
† [חָגַר] verb gird, gird on, gird oneself (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic חֲגַר; Arabic حَجَرَ hinder, restrain, so Syriac rfgo; Assyrian agâru, surround, in derivatives, DlW 105 ff.; Sabean מחגרת (compare Arabic مَحْجِرً, مَحَاجِر enclosed space, district, etc.), DHM in MV; also proper name, of deity and location חגר, SabDenkm3. 81. 93 CISiv. 1, No. 49 etc.) —
Qal Perfect 3rd person feminine singular חָֽגְרָה Proverbs 31:17; 2nd person masculine singular וְהָגַרְתָּ֫ Exodus 29:9; 3rd person plural חָֽגְרוּ Isaiah 15:3; Lamentations 2:10; וְח׳ consecutive Ezekiel 7:18; Ezekiel 27:31; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יָחְגֹּר Leviticus 16:4, וַיַּחְגֹּר Leviticus 8:7 (twice in verse) + 4 times; suffix יַחְגְּרֶ֑הָ Psalm 109:19; 2nd person masculine singular תַּחְגֹּר Psalm 76:11 (but on text see below); 3rd person masculine plural יַחְגְּרוּ Ezekiel 44:18; 2 Samuel 22:46 (but on text of both see below), וַיַּחְגְּרוּ 1 Samuel 25:13; 1 Kings 20:32; 3rd person feminine plural תַּחְגֹּרְנָה Psalm 65:13; 2nd person masculine plural וַתַּחְגְּרוּ Deuteronomy 1:41; Imperative masculine singular חֲגֹּר 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 9:1, חֲגוֺר Psalm 45:4; feminine singular חִגְרִיֿ Jeremiah 6:26; masculine plural חִגְרוּ 1 Samuel 25:13 + 3 times; feminine plural חֲגֹּרְנָה Jeremiah 49:3, compare חֲג֖וֺרָה Isaiah 32:11 (see below); Infinitive cstr. לַחֲגֹר Isaiah 22:12; Participle active. חֹגֵר 1 Kings 20:11; 2 Kings 3:21; passive masculine חָגוּר Judges 18:11 + 5 times; feminine construct חֲגֻרַתֿ Joel 1:8; plural חֲגוּרִים Exodus 12:11; Judges 18:16; חֲגֻרִים Daniel 10:5; —
1. transitive, gird some one, with girdle; with 2 accusative Exodus 29:9; Leviticus 8:13 (both P); passive, girded with ephod (accusative) 1 Samuel 2:18; 2 Samuel 6:14; followed by בְּ Daniel 10:5, with accusative and בְּ, figurative Proverbs 31:17, חגרה בְּעוז מתניה Leviticus 8:7 (twice in verse) (P), with accusative מתנים gird up thy loins, i.e. make ready to go 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 9:1, passive Exodus 12:11 (P); compare probably also חֲג֖וֺרָה עַלחֲֿלָצָ֑יִם Isaiah 32:11 gird upon the loins (2nd accusative omitted); on verb. form as Imperative feminine plural see AE Ki Ew§ 226 a Di Du; > as masculine singular Ol§ 234 a Ges§ 48. 5 Sta§ 591 d Kö§ 20. 12.
2. gird on, bind on (= gird oneself with), a girdle Psalm 109:19 (in simile); so especially with accusative שׂק, שׂקים of mourning Isaiah 15:3; Isaiah 22:12; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 7:18; Ezekiel 27:31; 2 Samuel 3:31; Jeremiah 4:8; Jeremiah 6:26; Jeremiah 49:3; also 1 Kings 20:32 (with accusative שׂק + ב before מתנים); passive, followed by על before object of mourning Joel 1:8 (simile); absolute (שׂק omitted) Joel 1:13 (|| ספדו); followed by חֶרֶד 1 Samuel 25:13 (3 times in verse); Deuteronomy 1:41; Psalm 45:4 חרד על יָרֵךְ ח׳, so Judges 3:16; 1 Samuel 17:39 (followed by accusative + מֵעַל); with accusative of congnate meaning with verb חגורה ח׳ 2 Kings 3:21; absolute 1 Kings 20:11; passive Judges 18:11, 16, 17; 2 Samuel 20:8b (where read חֶרֶב Klo Dr — not We), 2 Samuel 21:16; read perhaps also חָגוּר for חֲגוֺר 2 Samuel 20:8 c, so Klo Dr.
3. intransitive gird oneself, followed by בְּ of thing Leviticus 16:4 (P), so בַיָּ֑זַע לֹא יַח׳ they shall not gird themselves with sweat (?), but strike out Syriac Version Co Sgfr; with accusative of thing (figurative) גִּיל גְּבָעוֺת תַּח׳ Psalm 65:13 with rejoicing the hills gird themselves; compare שְׁאֵרִית חֵמֹת תַּחְ׳ Psalm 76:11 with a remnant (residue) of wraths thou girdest thyself, so Hi Hup De VB; but very doubtful; Greek Version of the LXX Bö Ew read תְּחָגָּ֑ךָ for תַּחגר; Bae Ka omit line as corrupt; compare further Che and critical note — וְיַחְגְּרוּ 2 Samuel 22:46 is text error for וְיַחְרְגוּ, compare || Psalm 18:46; so Now Hup Kit and others.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

12:11; 12:11; 29:9; 29:9

Leviticus

8:7; 8:7; 8:13; 16:4; 16:4

Deuteronomy

1:41; 1:41

Judges

3:16; 18:11; 18:11; 18:16; 18:16; 18:17

1 Samuel

2:18; 17:39; 25:13; 25:13; 25:13

2 Samuel

3:31; 6:14; 20:8; 20:8; 21:16; 22:46; 22:46

1 Kings

20:11; 20:11; 20:32; 20:32

2 Kings

3:21; 3:21; 4:29; 4:29; 9:1; 9:1

Psalms

18:46; 45:4; 45:4; 65:13; 65:13; 76:11; 76:11; 109:19; 109:19

Proverbs

31:17; 31:17

Isaiah

15:3; 15:3; 22:12; 22:12; 32:11; 32:11

Jeremiah

4:8; 6:26; 6:26; 49:3; 49:3

Lamentations

2:10; 2:10

Ezekiel

7:18; 7:18; 27:31; 27:31; 44:18

Daniel

10:5; 10:5

Joel

1:8; 1:8; 1:13

H2296

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Strong's Number H2296 matches the Hebrew חָגַר (ḥāḡar),
which occurs 44 times in 41 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - And thus shall ye eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staves in your hands, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:9 - And thou shalt gird them with the girdles, and put the tires upon them, and they shall have a priestly office to me for ever; and thou shalt [fn]fill the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:7 - and put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the tunic, and put on him the ephod;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:13 - And Moses brought the sons of Aaron near, and put on them coats and girded them with girdles, and put on them bonnets, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:4 - And he shall put on the consecrated linen tunic, and he shall have on his flesh the linen drawers, and shall gird himself with a linen girdle, and shall put on the linen cap, they are holy garments; and he shall bathe all his body in water, and shall put them on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:41 - And ye answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, ye [fn]went up to the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:16 - And Aod made himself a dagger of two edges, of a span long, and he girded it under his cloak upon his right thigh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:11 - And there departed thence of the families of Dan, from Saraa and from Esthaol, six hundred men, girded with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:16 - And the six hundred men of the sons of Dan who were girded with their weapons of war [fn]stood by the door of the gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - And the five men who went to spy out the land went up, and entered into the house of Michaias, and the priest stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:18 - And Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girt with a linen ephod.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - And he girt David with his sword over his coat: and he [fn]made trial walking with them once and again: and David said to Saul, I shall not be able to go with these, for I have not proved them: so they remove them from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13 - And David said to his men, Gird on every man his sword. [fn]And they went up after David, about four hundred men: and two hundred abode with the stuff.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 - And David said to Joab and to all the people with him, Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament before Abenner. And king David followed the bier.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:14 - And David sounded with well-tuned instruments before the Lord, and David was clothed with a fine long robe.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:8 - And they were by the great stone that is in Gabaon: and Amessai went in before them: and Joab [fn]had upon him a military cloak over his apparel, and over it he was girded with a dagger fastened upon his loins in its scabbard: and the dagger came out, it even came out and fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:16 - And Jesbi, who was of the progeny of Rapha, and the head of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was girt with a club, even he thought to smite David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:46

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:46 - The strange children shall be cast away, and shall be overthrown out of their hiding-places.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:11 - (LXX 21:11) And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:32 - (LXX 21:32) So they girt sackcloth upon their loins, and put ropes upon their heads, and said to the king of Israel, Thy servant the son of Ader says, Let our [fn]souls live, I pray thee. And he said, Does he yet live? He is my brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:21 - And all Moab heard that the three kings were come up to fight against them; and they cried out [fn]on every side, even all that were girt with a girdle, [fn]and they said, Ho! and stood upon the border.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:29 - And Elisaie said to Giezi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go: if thou meet any man, thou shalt not [fn]salute him, and if a man salute thee thou shalt not answer him: and thou shalt lay my staff on the child's face.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 - And Elisaie the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up thy loins, and take this cruse of oil in thy hand, and go to Remmoth Galaad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:3 - (LXX 44:4) Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O Mighty One, in thy comeliness, and in thy beauty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:12 - (LXX 64:13) The mountains of the wilderness shall be enriched; and the hills shall gird themselves with joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:10 - (LXX 75:11) For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to thee: and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:19 - (LXX 108:19) Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:17 - She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:12 - And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and [fn]baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:11 - Be amazed, be pained, ye confident ones: strip you, bare yourselves, gird your loins;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 - For these things gird yourselves with sackclothes, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26 - O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - (LXX 30:19) Howl, O Esebon, for Gai has perished; cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with sackclothes, and lament; for Melchol shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 - Jod. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:18 - And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, even upon every face, and baldness upon every head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:18 - And they shall have linen mitres upon their heads, and shall have linen drawers upon their loins; and they shall not tightly gird themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:5 - And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girt with gold of Ophaz:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8 - Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the [fn]husband of her youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13 - Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.
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