1) waist-cloth, the innermost piece of clothing 1a) of God's power over kings (fig.) 1b) of faithfulness (metaph) 2) waistband
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H232 — אֵזוֹר
e.zor · girdle · Hebrew/Aramaic
11 tagged verse occurrences
2 Kings 1:8 · וְאֵז֥וֹר“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.Job 12:18 · אֵ֝ז֗וֹרHe loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.Isaiah 5:27 · אֵז֣וֹרNone of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.Isaiah 11:5 · אֵז֣וֹר · אֵז֥וֹרRighteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.Jeremiah 13:1 · אֵז֣וֹרThis is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”Jeremiah 13:2 · הָאֵז֖וֹרSo I bought a loincloth in accordance with the word of the LORD, and I put it around my waist.Jeremiah 13:4 · הָאֵז֛וֹר“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”Jeremiah 13:6 · הָ֣אֵז֔וֹרMany days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”Jeremiah 13:7 · הָ֣אֵז֔וֹר · הָאֵז֔וֹרSo I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.Jeremiah 13:10 · כָּאֵז֣וֹרThese evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.Jeremiah 13:11 · הָאֵז֜וֹרFor just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.