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Lexicon :: Strong's H232 - 'ēzôr

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אֵזוֹר
Transliteration
'ēzôr
Pronunciation
ay-zore'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 59a

Strong’s Definitions

אֵזוֹר ʼêzôwr, ay-zore'; from H246; something girt; a belt, also a band:—girdle.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's H232 in the following manner: girdle(s) (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's H232 in the following manner: girdle(s) (14x).

  1. waist-cloth, the innermost piece of clothing

    1. of God's power over kings (fig.)

    2. of faithfulness (metaph)

  2. waistband

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵזוֹר ʼêzôwr, ay-zore'; from H246; something girt; a belt, also a band:—girdle.
STRONGS H232: Abbreviations
† אֵזוֺר noun masculineIsaiah 5:27 waistcloth (Late Hebrew id., Arabic إِزَارً, compare RSJQ Jan. 1892, 289 ff.) — א׳ absolute Job 12:18 + 8 times; construct 2 Kings 1:8 + 4 times; — of skin 2 Kings 1:8 (prophet.); of linen Jeremiah 13:1 (see Che) compare Jeremiah 13:2; Jeremiah 13:4; Jeremiah 13:6; Jeremiah 13:7; Jeremiah 13:7; Jeremiah 13:10; Jeremiah 13:11 (symbolic of Israel & Judah cleaving to י׳); of Assyrian warriors' waistcloth,'girdle of loins' Isaiah 5:27; in wall-images of Chaldeans, בְּמָתְנַיִם חֲגוֺרֵי א׳ Ezekiel 23:15 (compare 2 Kings 1:18 see below אָזַר) so figurative of Yahweh's power over kings וַיֶּאְסֹר אֵזוֺר בְּמָתְנֵיהֶם Job 12:18 (א׳ = fetter, compare Di; but according to RSl.c. reference to slaves' garment); metaphor of righteousness & faithfulness Isaiah 11:5 (twice in verse) (מָתְנָיו א׳, חֲלָּצָיו א׳).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Kings

1:8; 1:8; 1:18

Job

12:18; 12:18

Isaiah

5:27; 5:27; 11:5

Jeremiah

13:1; 13:2; 13:4; 13:6; 13:7; 13:7; 13:10; 13:11

Ezekiel

23:15

H232

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H232 matches the Hebrew אֵזוֹר ('ēzôr),
which occurs 14 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - And they said to him, “He was a hairy man with a leather girdle H232 girded about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:18 -

“He opens the [fn]bond of kings

And binds their loins with a belt H232.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 -

No one in it is weary or stumbles,

None slumbers or sleeps;

Nor is the belt H232 at its waist undone,

Nor its sandal strap broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:5 -

Also righteousness will be the belt H232 about His loins,

And faithfulness the belt H232 about His waist.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:1 -

Thus Yahweh said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen belt H232 and put it around your loins, but do not put it in water.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:2 - So I bought the belt H232 in accordance with the word of Yahweh and put it around my loins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - “Take the belt H232 that you have bought, which is around your loins, and arise, go to [fn]the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - Now it happened that after many days Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the belt H232 which I commanded you to hide there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the belt H232 from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt H232 was ruined; it was totally worthless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - ‘This evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have walked after other gods to serve them and to worship them, let them be just like this belt H232 which is totally worthless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - ‘For as the belt H232 clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares Yahweh, ‘that they might be for Me a people, for a name, for praise, and for beauty; but they did not listen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - girded with belts H232 on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, in the likeness of the [fn]Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
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