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Lexicon :: Strong's H232 - 'ēzôr

Aa
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 Box2Ki 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - And they said in answer, He was a man clothed in a coat of hair, with a leather band about his body. Then he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:18 - He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 - There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:5 - And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:1 - This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:2 - So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.
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