Strong's #247: 'azar (pronounced aw-zar')

a primitive root; to belt:--bind (compass) about, gird (up, with).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âzar

1) gird, encompass, equip, clothe

1a) (Qal) to gird, gird on (metaphorical of strength)

1b) (Niphal) be girded

1c) (Piel) hold close, clasp

1d) (Hithpael) gird oneself (for war)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

1 Samuel 2:4: "of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength."
2 Samuel 22:40: " For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up under"
2 Kings 1:8: "And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle"
Job 30:18: "force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat."
Job 38:3: " Gird up now thy loins like a man; of thee, and answer"
Job 40:7: " Gird up thy loins now like a man: of thee, and declare"
Psalms 18:32: "It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh perfect."
Psalms 18:39: " For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued me those that rose up"
Psalms 30:11: "into dancing: thou hast put off and girded me with gladness;"
Psalms 65:6: "Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded"
Psalms 93:1: "is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot"
Isaiah 8:9: "ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken"
Isaiah 8:9: "countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken"
Isaiah 45:5: "God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known"
Isaiah 50:11: "all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire,"
Jeremiah 1:17: "Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, unto them all"