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# זַרְזִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2223

**girded** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

girded [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2223/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַרְזִיר: adj. girded, girt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2223/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. girded, girt (cf. BaNB 206)—only cstr. Pr 30:31 זַרְזִיר מָתְנַיִם אוֹ־תָ֑יִשׁ that which is girt in the loins, etc., named with lion, he-goat, and king, as stately in motion. Perhaps = gray-hound Ew Bö De al., or war-horse Bo Ges Hi al.; Vrss. cock, Talm. raven, v. De Now (NH זַרְזִיר starling (war-horse only in interpr. of Pr 30:31), Aramaic ܙܰܪܙܺܝܪܳܐ; Lexx. also ܙܰܪܙܽܘܪܳܐ starling, in Arabic زُرْزُورٌ, perhaps loan-wd. Others der. from a √ זרר, v. supr.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 rooster (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.31/#tree)

זַרְזִ֣יר מָתְנַ֣יִם אוֹ־תָ֑יִשׁ וּ֝מֶ֗לֶךְ אַלְק֥וּם עִמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.rooster of.loins or a.male.goat and a.king \[who\].a.band.of.soldiers \[is\].with him

*JPS 1917:* The greyhound; the he-goat also; and the king, against whom there is no rising up.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2223.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2223/): 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).