Azar means “belt” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G247 — allos (“otherwise”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H247 אָזַר (azar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. azar (aw-zar') v. 1. to belt [a primitive root] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include girded, gird, about, bindeth, and girdeth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
azar (aw-zar') v. 1. to belt [a primitive root] KJV: bind (compass) about, gird (up, with).
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H247. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to gird
Usage: 1) gird, encompass, equip, clothe 1a) (Qal) to gird, gird on (metaphorical of strength) 1b) (Niphal) be girded 1c)(Piel) hold close, clasp 1d) (Hiphpael) gird oneself (for war)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render azar, 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 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.
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.
15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H247.
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H247, grouped by book.
Azar (Strong's H247) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "belt". azar (aw-zar') v. 1. to belt [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H247 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H247 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as girded, gird, about, bindeth, girdeth, and compass. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.