azar · gird

What it means

azar (אָזַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gird”.

To gird: to fasten clothing or weapons at the waist for work or for battle; figuratively, to be filled with strength.

How to say it

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. To tie up one's clothes to work; or be filled with strength.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• girded ×4
• Gird up ×3
• gird yourselves ×3
• You girded me ×2
• I will gird you ×1
• it binds me ×1
• tied ×1
• who girds me ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×1

• 1 Samuel 2:4

  The bow of the mighty is broken, and those who stumbled have girded on strength.

• 2 Samuel 22:40

  You girded me with strength for battle; you made bow down beneath me those who rise against me.

• 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 30:18

  With great force my garment is disfigured; like the collar of my tunic it binds me.

• Job 38:3

  Gird up, please, your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you make known to me.

• Job 40:7

  “Gird up, please, your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you make known to me.

• Psalms 18:32

  The El who girds me with strength and makes my way blameless.

• Psalms 18:39

  You girded me with strength for war; you made bend the knee beneath me those who rise against me.

• Psalms 30:11

  You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; you have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

• Psalms 65:6

  who establishes the mountains by his strength, girded with might,

• Psalms 93:1

  YHWH reigns; with grandeur he has clothed himself; YHWH has clothed himself, with strength he has girded himself; the world also is firm; it will not be shaken.

• Isaiah 8:9

  Raise an uproar, peoples, and be shattered; and listen, all distant places of the earth: gird yourselves, and be shattered; gird yourselves, and be shattered.

• Isaiah 45:5

  I am YHWH, and there is no other; besides me there is no Elohim; I will gird you, though you have not known me,

• Isaiah 50:11

  Look, all of you who kindle fire, who gird yourselves with firebrands: walk in the light of your fire, and among the firebrands that you have set ablaze. From my hand this has come to you: in torment you will lie down.

• Jeremiah 1:17

  But you, gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them.

And 1 more times.