Lexicon :: Strong's H2296 - ḥāḡar

“Here is how you must eat it: You must be dressed for travel,[fn] your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the LORD’s Passover.

“Tie the sashes on Aaron and his sons and fasten headbands on them. The priesthood is to be theirs by a permanent statute. This is the way you will ordain Aaron and[fn] his sons.

He put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He put the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and fastened headbands on them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

“He is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body. He is to tie a linen sash around him and wrap his head with a linen turban. These are holy garments; he must bathe his body with water before he wears them.

“You answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.

Ehud made himself a double-edged sword eighteen inches long.[fn] He strapped it to his right thigh under his clothes

Six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol armed with weapons of war.

The six hundred Danite men were standing by the entrance of the city gate, armed with their weapons of war.

Samuel served in the LORD’s presence ​— ​this mere boy was dressed in the linen ephod.

David strapped his sword on over the military clothes and tried to walk, but he was not used to them. “I can’t walk in these,” David said to Saul, “I’m not used to them.” So David took them off.

He said to his men, “All of you, put on your swords! ” So each man put on his sword, and David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

David then ordered Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.” And King David walked behind the coffin.[fn]

David was dancing[fn] with all his might before the LORD wearing a linen ephod.

They were at the great stone in Gibeon when Amasa joined them. Joab was wearing his uniform and over it was a belt around his waist with a sword in its sheath. As he approached, the sword fell out.

Then Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giant,[fn] whose bronze spear weighed about eight pounds[fn] and who wore new armor, intended to kill David.

Foreigners lose heart

and come trembling from their fortifications.

The king of Israel answered, “Say this: ‘Don’t let the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.’ ”

So they dressed with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, went to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please spare my life.’ ”

So he said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

All Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So all who could bear arms, from the youngest to the oldest, were summoned and took their stand at the border.

So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your mantle under your belt, take my staff with you, and go. If you meet anyone, don’t stop to greet him, and if a man greets you, don’t answer him. Then place my staff on the boy’s face.”

The prophet Elisha called one of the sons of the prophets and said, “Tuck your mantle under your belt, take this flask of oil with you, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

Mighty warrior, strap your sword at your side.

In your majesty and splendor —

The wilderness pastures overflow,

and the hills are robed with joy.

Even human wrath will praise you;

you will clothe yourself

with the wrath that remains.[fn]

Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself,

like a belt he always wears.

She draws on her strength[fn]

and reveals that her arms are strong.

In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,

falling down and weeping.

On that day the Lord GOD of Armies

called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,

and for the wearing of sackcloth.

Shudder, you complacent ones;

tremble, you overconfident ones!

Strip yourselves bare

and put sackcloth around your waists.

Because of this, put on sackcloth;

mourn and wail,

for the LORD’s burning anger

has not turned away from us.

My dear[fn] people, dress yourselves in sackcloth

and roll in the dust.

Mourn as you would for an only son,

a bitter lament,

for suddenly the destroyer will come on us.

Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated;

cry out, daughters of Rabbah!

Clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and lament;

run back and forth within your walls,[fn]

because Milcom will go into exile

together with his priests and officials.

The elders of Daughter Zion

sit on the ground in silence.

They have thrown dust on their heads

and put on sackcloth.

The young women of Jerusalem

have bowed their heads to the ground.

They will put on sackcloth,

and horror will overwhelm them.

Shame will cover all their faces,

and all their heads will be bald.

“They shave their heads because of you

and wrap themselves in sackcloth.

They weep over you

with deep anguish and bitter mourning.

“They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They are not to put on anything that makes them sweat.

I looked up, and there was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of gold from Uphaz[fn] around his waist.

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,

mourning for the husband of her youth.

Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests;

wail, you ministers of the altar.

Come and spend the night in sackcloth,

you ministers of my God,

because grain and drink offerings

are withheld from the house of your God.