περιζώννυμι
to gird
‘to gird’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Future, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4024 appears — 6 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 12:35 περιεζωσμέναι perf pass ptcp nom pl fem "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning.
- Luke 12:37 περιζώσεται fut mid ind 3sg Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
- Luke 17:8 περιζωσάμενος aor mid ptcp nom sg masc and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?
Ephesians 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 1:13 περιεζωσμένον perf pass ptcp acc sg masc And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
- Revelation 15:6 περιεζωσμένοι perf pass ptcp nom pl masc The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
περιζωννυμι — transliterated perizṓnnymi — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to gird.” Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (50% of all occurrences). With 6 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Luke 12:35. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4024 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 3 verses 50%
- Revelation 2 verses 33%
- Ephesians 1 verse 17%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 50%
- Johannine 2 verses · 33%
- Revelation 2 verses · 33%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Gird thyself 2×
- American Standard Version: Gird thyself 2×, Girt 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Around 1×, Buckled around 1×, Dress yourself 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Girded 1×, Girding yourself 1×, Having been wrapped 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4024 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4024 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4024 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4024 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to fasten garments with a girdle or belt
- to gird one's self
- metaph. with truth as a girdle
Word origin
Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G4024 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περιεζωσμέναι periezōsménai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Luke 12:35 | 1 |
| περιεζωσμένοι periezōsménoi | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 15:6 | 1 |
| περιεζωσμένον periezōsménon | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 1:13 | 1 |
| περιζωσάμενοι perizōsámenoi | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Ephesians 6:14 | 1 |
| περιζωσάμενος perizōsámenos | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 17:8 | 1 |
| περιζώσεται perizṓsetai | Verb, Future, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 12:37 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4024, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- περιαγω periágō G4013 to lead around
- περιαιρεω periairéō G4014 to take away
- περιαστραπτω periastráptō G4015 to shine around
- περιβαλλω peribállō G4016 to throw around
- περιβλεπω periblépō G4017 to look around
- περιδεω peridéō G4019 to bind around
- περιεργαζομαι periergázomai G4020 to bustle about
- περιεργος períergos G4021 busybody
- περιερχομαι periérchomai G4022 to go about
- περιεχω periéchō G4023 to surround
- περιΐστημι periḯstēmi G4026 to stand around
- περικαθαρμα perikátharma G4027 scum
- περικαλυπτω perikalýptō G4028 to cover up
- περικειμαι períkeimai G4029 to lie around
- περικεφαλαια perikephalaía G4030 helmet
- περικρατης perikratḗs G4031 to have power over
- περικρυπτω perikrýptō G4032 to hide
- περικυκλοω perikyklóō G4033 to encircle
- περιλαμπω perilámpō G4034 to shine around
- περιλειπω perileípō G4035 to remain over
- περιλυπος perílypos G4036 deeply sorrowful
- περιμενω periménō G4037 to wait for
- περιξ périx G4038 round about
- περιοικεω perioikéō G4039 to be neighbor
+17 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 43 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word περιζωννυμι appears 28 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 13 books.
- 28
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 12:11 περιζώννυμι
- Judges 3:16 περιζώννυμι
- 1 Samuel 2:4 περιζώννυμι
- 2 Samuel 3:31 περιζώννυμι
- 1 Kings 21:32 περιζώννυμι
- 2 Kings 1:8 περιζώννυμι
- 1 Chronicles 15:27 περιζώννυμι
- Psalms 17:40 περιζώννυμι
- Isaiah 15:3 περιζώννυμι
- Jeremiah 1:17 περιζώννυμι
- Lamentations 2:10 περιζώννυμι
- Daniel 10:5 περιζώννυμι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4024) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 12:11 περιζώννυμι This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
- Judges 3:16 περιζώννυμι Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.
- 1 Samuel 2:4 περιζώννυμι The bows of the mighty men are broken; Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
- 1 Samuel 2:18 περιζώννυμι But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
- 2 Samuel 3:31 περιζώννυμι David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.
- 2 Samuel 20:8 περιζώννυμι When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his loins in the sheath of it; and as he went forth it fell out.
- 2 Samuel 21:16 περιζώννυμι and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.
- 1 Kings 21:32 περιζώννυμι
- 2 Kings 1:8 περιζώννυμι They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of leather about his loins. He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
- 1 Chronicles 15:27 περιζώννυμι David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen.
- Psalms 17:40 περιζώννυμι
- Psalms 29:12 περιζώννυμι
- Psalms 44:4 περιζώννυμι You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
- Psalms 64:7 περιζώννυμι But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
- Psalms 64:13 περιζώννυμι
- Psalms 92:1 περιζώννυμι It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, To sing praises to your name, Most High;
- Psalms 108:19 περιζώννυμι
- Isaiah 15:3 περιζώννυμι In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
- Isaiah 32:11 περιζώννυμι Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.
- Jeremiah 1:17 περιζώννυμι You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
- Jeremiah 4:8 περιζώννυμι For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.
- Jeremiah 6:26 περιζώννυμι Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
- Jeremiah 30:19 περιζώννυμι Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
- Lamentations 2:10 περιζώννυμι The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
- Daniel 10:5 περιζώννυμι I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz:
- Joel 1:8 περιζώννυμι Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
- Joel 1:13 περιζώννυμι Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4024) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
