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Strong's #4024: perizonnumi (pronounced per-id-zone'-noo-mee)

from 4012 and 2224; to gird all around, i.e. (middle voice or passive) to fasten on one's belt (literally or figuratively):--gird (about, self).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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perizōnnumi

1) to fasten garments with a girdle or belt

2) to gird one' s self

3) metaphorically with truth as a girdle

3a) to equip one' s self with knowledge of the truth

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4012 and G2224

Citing in TDNT: 5:302, 702




Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Luke 12:35: "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;"
Luke 12:37: "I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and"
Luke 17:8: "wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten"
Acts 12:8: "said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals."
Ephesians 6:14: "therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on"
Revelation 1:13: "clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden"
Revelation 15:6: "and having their breasts girded with golden girdles."









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