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# אֵזוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H232

**waistcloth** — used 14 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

waistcloth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/232/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵזוֹר: n.m. waistcloth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/232/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 13:10 waistcloth (NH id., Arabic إِزَارٌ, cf. RSJQ Jan. 1892, 289 ff.)—א׳ abs. Jb 12:18 + 8 times; cstr. 2 K 1:8 + 4 times;—of skin 2 K 1:8 (prophet.); of linen Je 13:1 (v. Che) cf. v 2, 4, 6, 7(×2), 10, 11 (symbol. of Isr. & Jud. cleaving to י׳); of Assyrian warriors’ waistcloth, ‘girdle of loins’ Is 5:27; in wall-images of Chaldeans, חֲגוֹרֵי א׳ בְּמָתְנֵיהֶם Ez 23:15 (cf. 2 K 1:8 v. sub אָזַר) so fig. of Yahweh’s power over kings וַיֶּאְסֹר אֵזוֹר בְּמָתְנֵיהֶם Jb 12:18 (א׳ = fetter, cf. Di; but according to RSl.c. ref. to slaves’ garment); metaph. of righteousness & faithfulness Is 11:5(×2) (א׳ מָתְנָיו, א׳ חֲלָצָיו).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: loincloth (7); a loincloth (3); the loincloth (3).

## In the verses

[Job 12:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.18/#tree)

מוּסַ֣ר מְלָכִ֣ים פִּתֵּ֑חַ וַיֶּאְסֹ֥ר אֵ֝ז֗וֹר בְּמָתְנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].correction of.kings he.loosens and he.bound a.loincloth on loins their

*JPS 1917:* He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.

[Isaiah 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.5/#tree)

וְהָ֥יָה צֶ֖דֶק אֵז֣וֹר מָתְנָ֑יו וְהָאֱמוּנָ֖ה אֵז֥וֹר חֲלָצָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be righteousness the.loincloth his.hips his and (the) faithfulness the.loincloth his.loins his

*JPS 1917:* And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/232.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/232/): 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).