Strong's #2296: chagar (pronounced khaw-gar')

a primitive root; to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.):--be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, X on every side.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châgar

1) to gird, gird on, gird oneself, put on a belt

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to gird

1a2) to gird on, bind on

1a3) to gird oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 43 times:

 

Exodus 12:11: "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand;"
Exodus 29:9: " And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be"
Leviticus 8:7: "upon him and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe,"
Leviticus 8:7: "the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound"
Leviticus 8:13: "sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets"
Leviticus 16:4: "breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen miter"
Deuteronomy 1:41: "the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war,"
Judges 3:16: "edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon"
Judges 18:11: "out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed"
Judges 18:16: "And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children"
Judges 18:17: "with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war."
1 Samuel 2:18: "the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod."
1 Samuel 17:39: "And David girded upon his armor, and he attempted"
1 Samuel 25:13: "And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on"
1 Samuel 25:13: "every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David"
1 Samuel 25:13: "his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after"
2 Samuel 3:31: "were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner."
2 Samuel 6:14: "with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod."
2 Samuel 20:8: "them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword"
2 Samuel 21:16: "shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain"
2 Samuel 22:46: "Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid"
1 Kings 20:11: "Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off."
1 Kings 20:32: " So they girded sackcloth on their loins, on their heads, and came to the king"
2 Kings 3:21: "were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armor, and upward,"
2 Kings 4:29: "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way:"
2 Kings 9:1: "of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this"
Psalms 45:3: " Gird thy sword upon O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty."
Psalms 65:12: "of the wilderness: rejoice on every side."
Psalms 76:10: "thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain."
Psalms 109:19: "unto him as the garment which covereth wherewith he is girded continually."
Proverbs 31:17: " She girdeth her loins with strength, her arms."
Isaiah 15:3: "In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl,"
Isaiah 22:12: "to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:"
Jeremiah 4:8: "For this gird lament and howl: for the fierce"
Jeremiah 6:26: "O daughter of my people, gird and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning,"
Jeremiah 49:3: "cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges;"
Lamentations 2:10: "dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down"
Ezekiel 7:18: " They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror them; and shame shall be upon all faces,"
Ezekiel 27:31: "And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird and they shall weep for thee with bitterness"
Ezekiel 44:18: "upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat."
Daniel 10:5: "clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:"
Joel 1:8: "Lament like a virgin girded for the husband of her youth."
Joel 1:13: " Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night"