Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to dress
Usage: ζώννυμι and ζωννύω [in LXX chiefly for חָגַר ;] to gird: with accusative of person(s), Jhn.21:18. Mid., to gird oneself: Act.12:8 (cf. ἀνα-, δια-, περι-, ὑπο-ζώννυμι).† (AS)
Zonnymi means “gird” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2224 — zarach (“arise”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2224 ζώννυμι (zonnumi) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. zonnumi (dzone'-noo-mi) v. 1. to bind about (especially with a belt) [from G2223] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include gird. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
zonnumi (dzone'-noo-mi) v. 1. to bind about (especially with a belt) [from G2223] KJV: gird Root(s): G2223
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to dress
Usage: ζώννυμι and ζωννύω [in LXX chiefly for חָגַר ;] to gird: with accusative of person(s), Jhn.21:18. Mid., to gird oneself: Act.12:8 (cf. ἀνα-, δια-, περι-, ὑπο-ζώννυμι).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zonnumi, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2224 (ζώννυμι) appears 20 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
18 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And thou shalt gird them with the girdles, and put the tires upon them, and they shall have a priestly office to me forever; and thou shalt fill the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons.
and put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the tunic, and put on him the ephod;
And Moses brought the sons of Aaron near, and put on them coats and girded them with girdles, and put on them bonnets, as the Lord commanded Moses.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were girded fast unto them with devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.
But when he drew near, they that were with Maccabeus turned themselves to pray unto God, and sprinkled earth upon their heads, and girded their loins with sackcloth,
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2224.
And thou shalt gird them with the girdles, and put the tires upon them, and they shall have a priestly office to me forever; and thou shalt fill the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons.
and put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the tunic, and put on him the ephod;
And Moses brought the sons of Aaron near, and put on them coats and girded them with girdles, and put on them bonnets, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And he shall put on the consecrated linen tunic, and he shall have on his flesh the linen drawers, and shall gird himself with a linen girdle, and shall put on the linen cap, they are holy garments; and he shall bathe all his body in water, and shall put them on.
And there departed thence of the families of Dan, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men, girded with weapons of war.
And he girded David with his sword over his coat: and he made trial walking with them once and again: and David said to Saul, I shall not be able to go with these, for I have not proved them: so they remove them from him.
And David said to his men, Gird on every man his sword. And they went up after David, about four hundred men: and two hundred abode with the stuff.
And because of the word, Ahab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and rent his garment, and girded sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Naboth the Jezreelite, and went his way.
And Elisha said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go: if thou meet any man, thou shalt not salute him, and if a man salute thee thou shalt not answer him: and thou shalt lay my staff on the child’s face.
And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up thy loins, and take this cruse of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
Gird thy loins like a man; And I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; And I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle, thou shalt gird thyself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, thou shalt have baldness on account of thy works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, thou shalt gird thyself with sackcloth.
And he shall have his loins girded with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.
And, behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girded with the girdle about his loins, answered and said, I have done as thou didst command me.
And I clothed thee with embroidered garments, and clothed thee beneath with purple, and girded thee with fine linen, and clothed thee with silk,
having variegated girdles on their loins, having also richly dyed attire upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were girded fast unto them with devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.
But when he drew near, they that were with Maccabeus turned themselves to pray unto God, and sprinkled earth upon their heads, and girded their loins with sackcloth,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2224, grouped by book.
Zonnymi (Strong's G2224) is a Greek word most simply glossed "gird". zonnumi (dzone'-noo-mi) v. 1. to bind about (especially with a belt) [from G2223]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G2224 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2224 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as gird. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 18 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2224, with linked reader references where each row is available.