אֵזוֹר
e.zor (H0232)
girdle
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# אֵזוֹר (ezor): The Girdle in Biblical Context The Hebrew word אֵזוֹר (ezor) refers to a girdle—a belt or sash worn around the waist. With 14 occurrences in the biblical text, this word appears frequently enough to indicate its importance as both a practical garment and a symbolic element in Hebrew culture. The consistent translation across these instances suggests that the term maintained a stable meaning throughout its biblical usage, denoting a piece of clothing that functioned primarily to secure or bind other garments at the waist. Beyond its basic function as a utilitarian garment, the girdle appears to have carried cultural significance in biblical narrative and ritual contexts. Its repeated appearance across multiple texts suggests it was a standard element of dress for various figures and occasions. The specific garment could be plain or ornamental, and it served as a practical anchor point for other items of clothing or equipment, making it an important component of the overall biblical wardrobe description. Understanding this term helps modern readers grasp how ancient Israelites constructed and conceptualized their clothing.
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They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”
He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,
Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
Yahweh said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.
“Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
After many days, Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.”
Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’
dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.