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# שָׁנַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8151

**gird up** — 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

gird up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8151/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁנַס: vb. gird up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8151/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gird up (si vera l.; in Talm. (Aramaic) שְׁנַץ = bind sandals; NH שֶׁנֶץ thong);—Impf. 3 ms. וַיְשַׁנֵּם מָתְנָיו וַיָּ֫רָץ 1 K 18:46.

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 (1 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: he girded up (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 18:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.46/#tree)

וְיַד־יְהוָ֗ה הָֽיְתָה֙ אֶל־אֵ֣לִיָּ֔הוּ וַיְשַׁנֵּ֖ס מָתְנָ֑יו וַיָּ֙רָץ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אַחְאָ֔ב עַד־בֹּאֲכָ֖ה יִזְרְעֶֽאלָה׃

*Word for word:* and the.hand of.Yahweh it.was to Elijah and he.girded.up loins his and he.ran before Ahab until come you to Jezreel

*JPS 1917:* And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8151.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8151/): 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).