chagar · gird

What it means

chagar (חָגַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gird”.

Fasten a garment, a belt or a weapon around the waist for walking, working or fighting.

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 bind one's clothes or sword around the waist.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To gird: to fasten something at the waist, the belt, the sword, sackcloth or a priestly garment. Girding oneself is getting ready for a journey, for war, for service or for mourning. From the same root is חֲגוֹר, ‘belt’.

• Girding on the sword 1 Samuel 25:131 Samuel 17:39Psalms 45:3
• Girding the waist to set out Exodus 12:112 Kings 4:29
• The priestly garments Leviticus 8:72 Samuel 6:14
• Girding on sackcloth: mourning Joel 1:131 Kings 20:32Isaiah 32:11
• “Let not the one who girds on {his armor} boast like the one who takes {it} off” 1 Kings 20:11
• Images: “She girds her loins with strength” Proverbs 31:17Psalms 65:12

How we translate it

“Gird” in its forms (“Gird” 16 times, “girded” 12, “girds on” 2), as in “Gird your waist” (2 Kings 4:29). With the sword, also “strap on” or “fastened” (1 Samuel 25:13; 17:39); “belted” in Exodus 12:11; “armed with” 3. The pair of 1 Kings 20:11 is kept: “the one who girds on {his armor}” and “the one who takes {it} off”.

How it is translated

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

• Gird ×16
• girded ×12
• armed with ×3
• girds on ×2
• strapped on ×2
• Put on sackcloth ×1
• She girds ×1
• belted ×1
• fastened ×1
• girding on ×1
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Samuel×5
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×3
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Joel×2

• Exodus 12:11

  This is how you shall eat it: your waists belted, your sandals on your feet, and your walking stick in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover of YHWH.

• Exodus 29:9

  You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them, and the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

• Leviticus 8:7

  He put on him the tunic, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, put on him the ephod, and girded him with the band of the ephod, and bound it to him with it.

• Leviticus 8:13

  Moses brought near the sons of Aaron, clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and bound caps on them, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 16:4

  He shall put on a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments shall be on his body, and he shall tie a linen sash around him, and wrap his head with a linen turban; they are holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and put them on.

• Deuteronomy 1:41

  You answered and said to me, “We have sinned against YHWH. We will go up and fight, according to all that YHWH our Elohim commanded us.” Each of you girded on his weapons of war, and you considered it easy to go up into the hill country.

• Judges 3:16

  Ehud made for himself a sword; it had two edges, a cubit in length, and he strapped it under his clothes, on his right thigh.

• Judges 18:11

  And there set out from there, from the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• Judges 18:16

  Now the six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, were standing at the entrance of the gate.

• Judges 18:17

  And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up; they came in there, took the carved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the cast image, while the priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• 1 Samuel 2:18

  But Samuel was ministering before YHWH, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

• 1 Samuel 17:39

  David fastened his sword over his garment and tried to walk, for he had not tested it. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk in these, for I have not tested them.” And David removed them from himself.

• 1 Samuel 25:13

  David said to his men, “Each man, strap on his sword!” And each man strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword; and there went up after David about four hundred men, while two hundred stayed by the baggage.

• 2 Samuel 3:31

  David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, gird on sackcloth, and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bed.

• 2 Samuel 6:14

  David was dancing with all his strength before YHWH, and David was girded with a linen ephod.

• 2 Samuel 20:8

  They were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab was girded with the garment he wore, and over it was a belt with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went out, it fell out.

• 2 Samuel 21:16

  And Ishbi-benob, who was one of the descendants of Rapha —the weight of his spear was three hundred shekels in weight of bronze, and he was girded with a new sword— said that he would strike David.

• 2 Samuel 22:46

  Foreigners wither, and they come out girded from their strongholds.

• 1 Kings 20:11

  The king of Israel answered and said, “Tell him, ‘Let not the one who girds on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.’”

• 1 Kings 20:32

  They girded sackcloth on their waists and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please, let my soul live.’” He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

• 2 Kings 3:21

  All Moab heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, and they were called out, all from those who could gird on a belt and upward, and they stood at the border.

• 2 Kings 4:29

  He said to Gehazi, “Gird your waist, take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone, do not bless him; and if anyone blesses you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the face of the boy.”

• 2 Kings 9:1

  Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Gird your waist, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

• Psalms 45:3

  Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one, your splendor and your majesty.

• Psalms 65:12

  The pastures of the wilderness drip, and with jubilation the hills gird themselves.

• Psalms 76:10

  For the fury of human beings will give you thanks; with the remainder of furies you will gird yourself.

• Psalms 109:19

  Let it be to him like a garment he wraps himself in, and like a belt he continually girds on.

• Proverbs 31:17

  She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms.

• Isaiah 15:3

  In its streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares all of it wails, going down in weeping.

• Isaiah 22:12

  And Adonai YHWH Tsevaot called on that day to weeping and to lamentation and to baldness and to girding on sackcloth.

• Isaiah 32:11

  Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you confident ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and gird yourselves on your hips.

• Jeremiah 4:8

  For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the burning anger of YHWH has not turned back from us.

• Jeremiah 6:26

  Daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

• Jeremiah 49:3

  Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Gird on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the enclosures; for their king will go into exile, his priests and his princes together.

• Lamentations 2:10

  They sit on the ground, they are silent, the elders of the daughter of Zion; they have thrown up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; they have bowed to the ground their heads, the virgins of Jerusalem.

• Ezekiel 7:18

  And they will gird on sackcloth, and shuddering will cover them; and on all faces will be shame, and on all their heads baldness.

• Ezekiel 27:31

  And they will make themselves bald for you, and gird on sackcloth, and weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter lamentation.

• Ezekiel 44:18

  Linen headdresses shall be on their heads, and linen undergarments shall be on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with sweat.

• Daniel 10:5

  I lifted my eyes and looked, and look, a man clothed in linen, and his waist girded with fine gold of Uphaz;

• Joel 1:8

  Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

And 4 more times.