זַרְזִיר
girded
also: girt, alert fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2223 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Proverbs 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew noun זרזיר centers on the idea of “girded.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Proverbs dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Proverbs 30:31. BDB distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “girded” it spans “girt” and “alert”. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2223 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Proverbs 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: not separately translated
- Berean Standard Bible†: Strutting rooster 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Rooster 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Does not render H2223 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2223 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2223 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB 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.
- girded, girt, alert, used with 4975 in Pro 30:31
- perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
Word origin
I. adj. girded, girt (cf. BaNB 206)—only cstr. Pr 30:31 זַרְזִיר מָתְנַיִם אוֹ־תָ֑יִשׁ that which is girt in the loins, etc., named with lion, he-goat, and king, as stately in motion. Perhaps = gray-hound Ew Bö De al., or war-horse Bo Ges Hi al.; Vrss. cock, Talm. raven, v. De Now (NH זַרְזִיר starling (war-horse only in interpr. of Pr 30:31), Aramaic ܙܰܪܙܺܝܪܳܐ; Lexx. also ܙܰܪܙܽܘܪܳܐ starling, in Arabic زُرْزُورٌ, perhaps loan-wd. Others der. from a √ זרר, v. supr.)
II. Pr 30:31 v. sub iii. זוּר.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זור (zûwr) (H2115) — to crush.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זַרְזִיר I
- (v. זִירָה) wrestler, antagonist, gladiator. Y. R. Hash. I, 57ᵃ bot. זה … לנצח זַרְזִירוֹ וכ׳ each is anxious to defeat his antagonist.—Pl. זַרְזִירִין, זַרְזָרִין. Lam. R. to V, 1 אדם … שני זרזרין … כובש וכ׳ (not כבוש) if a man trains two gladiators in his house, he will restrain the stronger one &c. [Bib. Hebr. זַרְזִיר quick, or armed, v. זרז.]
זַרְזִיר II
- (Syr. זרזירא P. Sm. 1156, Ar. zurzur; prob. fr. זור to circle) starling, also (collect.) flock of starlings. Ḥull. 62ᵃ להביא את הז׳ (Sifra Sh’mini, Par. 3, ch. V הזַרְזִירִים, Ar. רין …) to include the starling (in the genus raven). Ḥull. l. c.; B. Kam. 92ᵇ (prov.) לא לחנם הלך ז׳ וכ׳ not without cause does the starling follow the raven &c.; Gen. R. s. 65, beg. Ib. עלה ז׳ אחד וכ׳ a flock of starlings came to Palestine.—Pl. זַרְזִירִים, זַרְזִירִין. Gen. R. s. 75 אין שני ז׳ וכ׳ two flocks of starlings cannot sleep on one board (two nations cannot rule at the same time). Tosef. Ḥull. III (IV), 23.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2223, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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