Perizṓnnymi — G4024

Definition

verb

to gird all around, i.e. (middle voice or passive) to fasten on one's belt (literally or figuratively)

1. to fasten garments with a girdle

Usually translated as

gird

Origin

from G4012 and G2224

• perí (G4012)
• zṓnnymi (G2224)

Occurrences

Perizṓnnymi occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (3), Acts (1), Ephesians (1), Revelation (2)

• Luke 12:35 — Let your loins be girded about (περιεζωσμέναι), and your lights burning;
• Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird (περιζώσεται) himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
• Luke 17:8 — And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird (περιζωσάμενος) thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
• Acts 12:8 — And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself (περιζωσαι), and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
• Ephesians 6:14 — Stand therefore, having your loins girt about (περιζωσάμενοι) with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
• Revelation 1:13 — And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about (περιεζωσμένον) the paps with a golden girdle.
• Revelation 15:6 — And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded (περιεζωσμένοι) with golden girdles.