Word

אֵזוֹר

ʼêzôwr · H232 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Waistband, sash, beltClothing34 verses
LoinclothClothing2 verses

Meanings

loincloth, waistcloth

Piece of cloth, wrapped around the waist to cover the private parts; commonly worn by slaves; associated with low status

Examples
Job 12:18 “He undoes the binding of kings, And ties a loincloth around their waist.
waistband, belt, girdle

Strip of linen or leather; worn around the waist to hold one's robe in place; sometimes used to keep money and other things; since it is worn so close to one's body it is sometimes associated with a person's basic principles

Examples
2 Kings 1:8 And they said to him, “He was a hairy man with a leather belt worn around his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
Isaiah 5:27 No one in it is tired or stumbles, No one slumbers or sleeps; Nor is the undergarment at his waist loosened, Nor his sandal strap broken.
Isaiah 11:5 Also righteousness will be the belt around His hips, And faithfulness the belt around His waist.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

חָלָץloins 2
מֹתֶןloins, waist 1
עוֹרskin 1
פִּשְׁתֶּהlinen, flax 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 5 groups

זֶהthis 1
מֹתֶןloins, waist 1
צָוָהto give orders 1
צָלַחto prosper, to succeed, to rush upon 1
קָנָהto buy, to acquire 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

דָּבַקto cling, to cleave 1
אָזַרto be girded 1
פָּתַחto open 1
שָׁחַתto destroy, to corrupt 1

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 4 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 3
קָנָהto buy, to acquire 2
הָיָהto be, to become 1
אָסַרto bind, to tie 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חָגוֹרgirded 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Clothing001003001001002: אֵזוֹר names a belt or loincloth, as Elijah's leather belt and the loincloth Job describes kings being girded with.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

זָנַק zânaq · H2187 · to leap forth · 1×אֵזוֹרʼêzôwr · H232זִיקָה zîyqâh · H2131 · chains, fetters, firebrand · 7×אֲזִקִּים ʼăziqqîym · H246 · chains, fetters · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H232. ezor אֵזוֺר noun masculineIsa 5:27 waistcloth (Late Hebrew id., Arabic , compare…

H232. ezor
אֵזוֺר noun masculineIsa 5:27 waistcloth (Late Hebrew id., Arabic , compare RSJQ Jan. 1892, 289 ff.) — ׳א absolute Job 12:18 Job 12:8t; construct 2Ki 1:8 2Ki 1:4t.; — of skin 2Ki 1:8 (prophet.); of linen Jer 13:1 (see Che) compare Jer 13:2; Jer 13:4; Jer 13:6; Jer 13:7; Jer 13:7; Jer 13:10; Jer 13:11 (symbolic of Israel & Judah cleaving to ׳י); of Assyrian warriors' waistcloth,'girdle of loins' Isa 5:27; in wall-images of Chaldeans, א ׳חֲגוֺרֵי בְּמָתְנַיִם Eze 23:15 (compare 2Ki 1:18 see below אָזַר) so figurative of Yahweh's power over kings בְּמָתְנֵיהֶם אֵזוֺר וַיֶּאְסֹר Job 12:18 (׳א = fetter, compare Di; but according to RSl.c. reference to slaves' garment); metaphor of righteousness & faithfulness Isa 11:5 (twice in verse) (חֲלָּצָיו׳א ׳א, מָתְנָיו).
אֶזְרוֺעַ see זרע.
אֶזְרָח see זרח.
אֹחַ see I. אחח .

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Clothing14 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0