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# אַבְנֵט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H73

**girdle** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

girdle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/73/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַבְנֵט²: girdle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/73/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] girdle—א׳ abs. Ex 28:4 +; אַבְנֵֽטְךָ֨ Is 22:21; cstr. Ex 39:29; אַבְנֵטִים Ex 28:40;—girdle, of high priest Ex 28:4, 39; 39:29 Lv 8:7; 16:4; of priests Ex 28:40; 29:9 Lv 8:13 (all P); of high official Is 22:21.—Josephusiii. 7. 2 ἀβανήθ; cf. further LagGes. Abh. 39. described JosAnt. iii. 7, 2 as a sash wound round breast several times and falling to the feet; in 𝔗 𝔖 הֶמְיָן (Pers.) a money-bag wound round body StaThLZ, 1894, 236.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a sash (5); sash (3); sashes (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.39/#tree)

וְשִׁבַּצְתָּ֙ הַכְּתֹ֣נֶת שֵׁ֔שׁ וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ מִצְנֶ֣פֶת שֵׁ֑שׁ וְאַבְנֵ֥ט תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה רֹקֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.weave the tunic fine.linen and you.will.make a.turban of.fine.linen and a.sash you.will.make \[the\].work of.a.worker.in.colors

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt weave the tunic in chequer work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the weaver in colours.

[Exodus 28:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.40/#tree)

וְלִבְנֵ֤י אַהֲרֹן֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה כֻתֳּנֹ֔ת וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ לָהֶ֖ם אַבְנֵטִ֑ים וּמִגְבָּעוֹת֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה לָהֶ֔ם לְכָב֖וֹד וּלְתִפְאָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and for the.sons of.Aaron you.will.make tunics and you.will.make for them sashes and headdresses you.will.make for them for glory and for beauty

*JPS 1917:* And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/73.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/73/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).