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Strong's H2296 חָגַר (chagar)

Chagar means “gird” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2296 — thaumazo (“admire”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2296
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 40
Books 16

Strong's H2296 Quick Answer

Strong's H2296 חָגַר (chagar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chagar (khaw-gar') v. 1. to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.) [a primitive root] It has 40 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include girded, gird, appointed, girdeth, and afraid. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chagar (khaw-gar') v. 1. to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.) [a primitive root]
Usage
40 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
girded, gird, appointed, girdeth, and afraid

Meaning and Definition

chagar (khaw-gar') v. 1. to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.) [a primitive root] KJV: be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, X on every side.

Original Word
חָגַר
Transliteration
chagar
Derivation
Root: חגר
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2296. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2296 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chagar, 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.

gird Exodus 29:9 15× girded Exodus 12:11 15× appointed Judges 18:11 girdeth 1 Kings 20:11 able 2 Kings 3:21 afraid 2 Samuel 22:46 every Psalms 65:12 girding Isaiah 22:12 restrain Psalms 76:10

How Strong's H2296 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 40 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2296 by Corpus

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.

Strong's H2296 in the Old Testament

40 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 12:11 KJV

And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover.

Exodus 29:9 KJV

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Leviticus 8:7 KJV

And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.

Usage Excerpts

First 40 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2296.

Exodus 12:11 Old Testament, KJV
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover.
Exodus 29:9 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
Leviticus 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 16:4 Old Testament, KJV
He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
Deuteronomy 1:41 Old Testament, KJV
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
Judges 3:16 Old Testament, KJV
But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
Judges 18:11 Old Testament, KJV
And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
Judges 18:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
Judges 18:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
1 Samuel 2:18 Old Testament, KJV
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 17:39 Old Testament, KJV
And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
1 Samuel 25:13 Old Testament, KJV
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
2 Samuel 3:31 Old Testament, KJV
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2 Samuel 20:8 Old Testament, KJV
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
2 Samuel 21:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
2 Samuel 22:46 Old Testament, KJV
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
1 Kings 20:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
1 Kings 20:32 Old Testament, KJV
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
2 Kings 3:21 Old Testament, KJV
And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
2 Kings 4:29 Old Testament, KJV
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
2 Kings 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
Psalms 45:3 Old Testament, KJV
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Psalms 65:12 Old Testament, KJV
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
Psalms 76:10 Old Testament, KJV
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Psalms 109:19 Old Testament, KJV
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Proverbs 31:17 Old Testament, KJV
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Isaiah 15:3 Old Testament, KJV
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
Isaiah 22:12 Old Testament, KJV
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Jeremiah 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Jeremiah 6:26 Old Testament, KJV
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah 49:3 Old Testament, KJV
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Lamentations 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Ezekiel 7:18 Old Testament, KJV
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Ezekiel 27:31 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
Ezekiel 44:18 Old Testament, KJV
They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
Daniel 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
Joel 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2296, grouped by book.

Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 3 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Joel 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H2296 FAQ

What does chagar (חָגַר) mean?

Chagar (Strong's H2296) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "gird". chagar (khaw-gar') v. 1. to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.) [a primitive root]

How many times is chagar (חָגַר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 40 linked usages for Strong's H2296 across 16 books.

Where can I study chagar (חָגַר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2296 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chagar (חָגַר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as girded, gird, appointed, girdeth, afraid, and able. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.