אָזַר
ʼâzar · aw-zar'
to belt
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to belt
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bind (compass) about, gird (up, with).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest
Strength, the leader that works to cut, to sustain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָזַר 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
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- for thou hast girded2 · 13%
- gird up2 · 13%
- gird2 · 13%
- are girded1 · 6%
- and girt1 · 6%
- it bindeth me about1 · 6%
- that girdeth1 · 6%
- and girded1 · 6%
- being girded1 · 6%
- wherewith he hath girded1 · 6%
- me: i girded1 · 6%
- that compass yourselves about1 · 6%
- thou therefore gird up1 · 6%
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.