Girdles

Girdle in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) Heb. hagor, a girdle of any kind worn by soldiers (1 Sam. 18:4; 2 Sam. 20:8; 1 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 3:21) or women (Isa. 3:24). (2.) Heb. 'ezor, something "bound," worn by prophets (2 Kings 1:8; Jer. 13:1), soldiers (Isa. 5:27; 2 Sam. 20:8; Ezek. 23:15), Kings (Job 12:18). (3.) Heb. mezah, a "band," a girdle worn by men alone (Ps. 10...

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Girdles Scripture - Psalms 109:19

Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually....

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Girdle in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Worn by men and women. The meezach was worn by men alone (Job 12:21, margin). The common girdle was of leather, as the Bedouins now wear a red leather girdle with a long crooked knife and a pistol stuck in. The finer girdle was of linen (Jeremiah 13:1), often embroidered with gold (Daniel 10:5; Revelation 1:13). Girded up, so as to confine the...

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Girdles Scripture - Job 12:18

He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle....

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Girdles Scripture - Exodus 28:40

And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty....

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Girdles Scripture - Jeremiah 13:1

Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water....

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Girdles Scripture - Exodus 29:9

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons....

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Girdles Scripture - 2 Kings 1:8

And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite....

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Girdles Scripture - Leviticus 8:13

And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses....

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Girdle in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

gur'-d'-l. See ARMOR; DRESS....

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