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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׳).
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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 - So they answered him, “A hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:18 - He loosens the bonds of kings,
And binds their waist with a belt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 - No one will be weary or stumble among them,
No one will slumber or sleep;
Nor will the belt on their loins be loosed,
Nor the strap of their sandals be broken;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:5 - Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,
And faithfulness the belt of His waist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:1 - Thus the LORD said to me: “Go and get yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:2 - So I got a sash according to the word of the LORD, and put it around my waist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - “Take the sash that you acquired, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates,[fn] and hide it there in a hole in the rock.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - Now it came to pass after many days that the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the sash 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 sash from the place where I had hidden it; and there was the sash, ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - ‘This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who follow the dictates of their hearts, and walk after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be just like this sash which is profitable for nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - ‘For as the sash clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me,’ says the LORD, ‘that they may become My people, for renown, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
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