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אֵזוֹר

ezor · belt, band

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H232 · appears 14 times in the Bible

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What it means

ezor (אֵזוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “belt, band”.

A belt, a sash: a band tied around the waist.

How to say it

e·zor

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A band of leather or cloth tied at the waist to hold the clothes.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • belt ×13
  • belts ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • 2 Kings 1:8

    They said to him, “A hairy man, with a belt of leather tied around his waist.” He said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

  • Job 12:18

    He loosens the restraint of kings, and binds a belt on their loins.

  • Isaiah 5:27

    None is weary and none stumbles in it; none slumbers or sleeps; the belt of its hips is not loosened, nor is the strap of its sandals broken.

  • Isaiah 11:5

    And righteousness will be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his hips.

  • Jeremiah 13:1

    Thus YHWH said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your loins, but in water do not put it.”

  • Jeremiah 13:2

    So I bought the belt according to the word of YHWH, and put it on my loins.

  • Jeremiah 13:4

    “Take the belt that you bought, which is on your loins, and get up, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.”

  • Jeremiah 13:6

    And it happened at the end of many days that YHWH said to me: “Get up, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the belt that I commanded you to hide there.”

  • Jeremiah 13:7

    So I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and look, the belt was ruined; it was not good for anything.

  • Jeremiah 13:10

    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 bow down to them, will be like this belt, which is not good for anything.

  • Jeremiah 13:11

    For as the belt clings to the loins of a man, so I made cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah, declares YHWH, to be to me a people, and a name and praise and beauty; but they did not listen.

  • Ezekiel 23:15

    girded with belts on their loins, with dangling turbans on their heads, with the appearance of officers, all of them, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their birth.

And 2 more times.