Girdles
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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Worn by the high priest
Ex 28:4,39; 39:29; Le 8:7; 16:4
-Other priests
Ex 28:40; 29:9; Le 8:13
-Women
Isa 3:24
-Embroidered
Ex 28:8
-Made of linen
Pr 31:24
-Made of leather
2Ki 1:8; Mt 3:4
-Traffic in
Pr 31:24
-Used to bear arms
1Sa 18:4; 2Sa 20:8; 2Ki 3:21
-FIGURATIVE
Isa 11:5; 22:21; Eph 6:14
-SYMBOLICAL
Jer 13:1-11; Ac 21:11; ...
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an essential article of dress in the East, and worn by both
men and women. The common girdle was made of leather, 2Ki 1:8;
Mt 3:4 like that worn by the Bedouins of the present day. A
finer girdle was made of linen, Jer 13:1; Eze 16:10
embroidered with silk, and sometimes with gold and silver
thread, Da 10:5; Re 1:13; 15:6 and frequently studde...
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(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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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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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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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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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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Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire
upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the
manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their
nativity:...
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