אַבְנֵט
girdle
also: sash, waistband fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 6 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (22%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H73 appears — 9 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 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.
Exodus 5 verses
- Exodus 28:4 וְ/אַבְנֵ֑ט conj + n c ms These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 28:39 וְ/אַבְנֵ֥ט conj + n c ms You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exodus 28:40 אַבְנֵטִ֑ים n c mp "You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall make sashes for them and headbands shall you make for them, for glory and for beauty.
- Exodus 29:9 אַבְנֵ֜ט n c ms You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
- Exodus 39:29 הָ/אַבְנֵ֞ט ptcl def.art + n c ms and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 8:7 בָּֽ/אַבְנֵ֔ט prep det + n c ms He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it.
- Leviticus 8:13 אַבְנֵ֔ט n c ms Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 16:4 וּ/בְ/אַבְנֵ֥ט conj + prep + n c ms cs He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be dressed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.
Isaiah 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.
“girdle” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun אבנט (ʼabnêṭ). It clusters heavily in Exodus, which alone accounts for 56% of its uses. With 9 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Lexicons map it across 4 senses — beyond “girdle” it also covers “sash” and “waistband”. Translators differ — “girdle” in the King James Version, then “sash” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H73 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 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 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 89%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 11%
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 6×, Girdles 3×
- American Standard Version: Girdle 6×, Girdles 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sash 4×, Sashes 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sash 6×, And 3×, Sashes 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H73 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H73 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H73 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H73 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.
Senses in BDB
The 4 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.
- girdle, sash, waistband
- of high priest
- of other priests
- of high official
Word origin
n.[m.] girdle—א׳ abs. Ex 28:4 +; אַבְנֵֽטְךָ֨ Is 22:21; cstr. Ex 39:29; אַבְנֵטִים Ex 28:40;—girdle, of high priest Ex 28:4, 39; 39:29 Lv 8:7; 16:4; of priests Ex 28:40; 29:9 Lv 8:13 (all P); of high official Is 22:21.—Josephusiii. 7. 2 ἀβανήθ; cf. further LagGes. Abh. 39. described JosAnt. iii. 7, 2 as a sash wound round breast several times and falling to the feet; in 𝔗 𝔖 הֶמְיָן (Pers.) a money-bag wound round body StaThLZ, 1894, 236.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
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.
אַבְנֵט
- belt. B. Kam. 94ᵇ. Yoma 6ᵃ; 12ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. אַבְנֵטִים. Zeb. 18ᵃ
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 9 distinct written forms H73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַבְנֵ֔ט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 8:13 | 1 |
| אַבְנֵ֜ט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 29:9 | 1 |
| אַבְנֵטִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 28:40 | 1 |
| בָּֽ/אַבְנֵ֔ט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 8:7 | 1 |
| הָ/אַבְנֵ֞ט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 39:29 | 1 |
| וְ/אַבְנֵ֑ט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:4 | 1 |
| וְ/אַבְנֵ֥ט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:39 | 1 |
| וְ/אַבְנֵֽטְ/ךָ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 22:21 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/אַבְנֵ֥ט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 16:4 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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