חָגַר
châgar · khaw-gar'
to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, [idiom] on every side.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › to carry, to lift up › the head, the highest
To separate and protect that works to carry, to lift up of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָגַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
44 occurrences · 44 OT · 0 NT · 38 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- girded4 · 12%
- gird4 · 12%
- appointed2 · 6%
- was girded2 · 6%
- and thou shalt gird1 · 3%
- and girded1 · 3%
- upon him, and he girded1 · 3%
- upon them, and girded1 · 3%
- and shall be girded1 · 3%
- us. and when ye had girded1 · 3%
- and he did gird1 · 3%
- that were appointed1 · 3%
- gird ye on1 · 3%
- and they girded on1 · 3%
- also girded on1 · 3%
- and gird1 · 3%
- he being girded1 · 3%
- and they shall be afraid1 · 3%
- him, let not him that girdeth1 · 3%
- so they girded1 · 3%
- all that were able to put1 · 3%
- gird up1 · 3%
- unto him, gird up1 · 3%
- on every side1 · 3%
- shalt thou restrain1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.