אֵזוֹר
waist
‘waist’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
8 distinct verses where H232 appears in the Absolute state, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Job 1 verse
Jeremiah 6 verses
- Jeremiah 13:2 הָ/אֵז֖וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.
- Jeremiah 13:4 הָ/אֵז֛וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
- Jeremiah 13:6 הָ֣/אֵז֔וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.
- Jeremiah 13:7 הָ֣/אֵז֔וֹר הָ/אֵז֔וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
- Jeremiah 13:10 כָּ/אֵז֣וֹר prep det + n c ms This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
- Jeremiah 13:11 הָ/אֵז֜וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms For as the belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Ezekiel 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.
אזור — transliterated ʼêzôwr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “waist.” More than half of its appearances fall in Jeremiah. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 12 verses — uncommon. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Its English rendering has broadened — “girdle” classically, “loincloth” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. See the sense tree, 12-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H232 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
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 12 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 11 verses · 92%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 8%
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: Girdle 9×
- American Standard Version: Girdle 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Loincloth 7×, Belt 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Loincloth 8×, Belt of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H232 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H232 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H232 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H232 across 16 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.
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.
- waist-cloth, the innermost piece of clothing
- waistband
Word origin
n.m. Je 13:10 waistcloth (NH id., Arabic إِزَارٌ, cf. RSJQ Jan. 1892, 289 ff.)—א׳ abs. Jb 12:18 + 8 times; cstr. 2 K 1:8 + 4 times;—of skin 2 K 1:8 (prophet.); of linen Je 13:1 (v. Che) cf. v 2, 4, 6, 7(×2), 10, 11 (symbol. of Isr. & Jud. cleaving to י׳); of Assyrian warriors’ waistcloth, ‘girdle of loins’ Is 5:27; in wall-images of Chaldeans, חֲגוֹרֵי א׳ בְּמָתְנֵיהֶם Ez 23:15 (cf. 2 K 1:8 v. sub אָזַר) so fig. of Yahweh’s power over kings וַיֶּאְסֹר אֵזוֹר בְּמָתְנֵיהֶם Jb 12:18 (א׳ = fetter, cf. Di; but according to RSl.c. ref. to slaves’ garment); metaph. of righteousness & faithfulness Is 11:5(×2) (א׳ מָתְנָיו, א׳ חֲלָצָיו).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אזקים (ʼăziqqîym) (H246) — chains.
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.
אֵזוֹר
- c. (b. h.; girdle, belt. M. Kat. 14ᵃ אֵיזוֹרוֹ וכ׳ his girdle (around his house-gown) testifies for him (that he has no more than the shirt he is washing). Tosef. Shebu. V, 12 sq.; a. e.—Pl. אֵזוֹרִים, אֵיז׳. Gen. R. s. 100 אֵזוֹרֵי מתניהם וכ׳ they loosened the girdles of their loins (in mourning sympathy). [Ch. זריז.]
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H232 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֵז֣וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 5:27 | 3 |
| הָ֣/אֵז֔וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 13:6 | 2 |
| אֵ֝ז֗וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 12:18 | 1 |
| אֵז֜וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 23:15 | 1 |
| אֵז֥וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 11:5 | 1 |
| הָ/אֵז֔וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 13:7 | 1 |
| הָ/אֵז֖וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 13:2 | 1 |
| הָ/אֵז֛וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 13:4 | 1 |
| הָ/אֵז֜וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 13:11 | 1 |
| וְ/אֵז֥וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Kings 1:8 | 1 |
| כָּ/אֵז֣וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 13:10 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
