περίζωμα
loincloth, girdle
Where this word appears
Every passage where περίζωμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:7 περίζωμα And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.
- Ruth 3:15 περίζωμα And he said to her, Bring the apron that is upon you: and she held it, and he measured six measures of barley, and put them upon her, and she went into the city.
- Proverbs 31:24 περίζωμα She makes fine linens, and sells girdles to the Chananites: she opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, and controls her tongue.
- Jeremiah 13:1 περίζωμα Thus says the Lord, Go and procure for yourself a linen girdle, and put it about your loins, and let it not be put in water.
- Jeremiah 13:2 περίζωμα So I procured the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.
- Jeremiah 13:4 περίζωμα Take the girdle that is upon your loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
- Jeremiah 13:6 περίζωμα And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle, which I commanded you to hide there.
- Jeremiah 13:7 περίζωμα So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I had buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.
- Jeremiah 13:10 περίζωμα even this great pride of the men that will not listen to my words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them: and they shall be as this girdle, which can be used for nothing.
- Jeremiah 13:11 περίζωμα For as a girdle cleaves about the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to myself the house of Israel, and the whole house of Juda; that they might be to me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory: but they did not listen to me.
About this word
About this word
περίζωμα (perízōma), “loincloth, girdle,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 10 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
