Thematic Bible: Girdles
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Girdles » Used for » Strengthening the loins
and array him with thy coat, and gird him with thy girdle, and I will give thy power into his hand. He shall be a father of the citizens of Jerusalem, and of the kindred of Judah.
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She girdeth her loins with strength, and courageth her arms.
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Go through thy land, O thou daughter of the sea, as men go over the water; for thou hast no more strength.
Girdles » Worn upon the loins
Moreover thou knowest how Joab the son of Zeruiah hath served me, and what he hath done to the two captains of the hosts of Israel - unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether - how he slew them and shed the blood of war in time of peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins and in his shoes that were on his feet.
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Moreover, thus said the LORD unto me, "Go thy way, and get thee a linen breech, and gird it about thy loins, and let it not be wet."
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For as straightly as a breech lieth upon a man's loins, so straightly did I bind the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah unto me, sayeth the LORD: that they might be my people; that they might have a glorious name; that they might be in honour. But they would not obey me.
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Girdles » Used for » Girding up the garments when working
Happy are those servants, which their Lord, when he cometh, shall find waking; Verily I say unto you, he will gird himself about, and make them sit down to meat, and walk by them, and minister unto them.
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He rose from supper, and laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel, and gird himself.
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And would not rather say to him, 'Dress wherewith I may sup, and gird up thyself and serve me, till I have eaten and drunk: and afterward, eat thou, and drink thou?'
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Girdles » Made of » Gold
And in the midst of the candlesticks, one like unto the son of man clothed with a linen garment down to the ground, and gird about the paps with a golden girdle.
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and the seven angels came out of the temple, which had the seven plagues, clothed in pure and bright linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
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Girdles » Made of » Sackcloth
{Yod} The Senators of the daughter Zion sit upon the ground in silence: they have strawed ashes upon their heads, and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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And instead of good smell there shall be stink among them. And for their girdles there shall be loose bands. And for well set hair there shall be baldness. Instead of a stomacher, a sackcloth; and for their beauty, witheredness and sunburning.
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Girdles » Used for » Suspending the sword
And everyone that builded, had his sword gird by his side, and so builded they. And the trumpeters stood beside me.
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And when they were come to the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa met them. And Joab had his garment that he had about him, gird unto him, and had girded thereon a knife joined fast to his loins, in such a sheath that as he went it fell sometimes out.
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Girdles » Used for » Girding up the garments when walking
Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand and away. If any man meet thee, salute him not. And if any salute thee, answer him not again. And put my staff upon the boy."
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And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab, till they came to Jezreel.
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Girdles » Illustrative of » Strength
and array him with thy coat, and gird him with thy girdle, and I will give thy power into his hand. He shall be a father of the citizens of Jerusalem, and of the kindred of Judah.
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Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; thou hast thrown them all down under me, that rose up against me. {TYNDALE: And thou compassedest me about with might to battle, and madest them that rose against me to stoop under me.}
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Girdles » Made of » Leather
This John had his garment of camel's hair, and a girdle of a skin about his loins; his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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And they said unto him, "It was a hairy man and girded with a girdle of a skin about his loins." And he said unto them, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."
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Girdles » Used for » Taken off when at rest
There is not one faint or feeble among them, no not a sluggish nor slippery person. There shall not one of them put off the girdle from his loins, nor loose the latchet of his shoe.
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He rose from supper, and laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel, and gird himself.
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Girdles » Used for » Holding money
Possess not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles,
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And commanded them, that they should take nothing unto their Journey, save a rod only: Neither scrip, neither bread, neither money in their purses:
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Girdles » Worn by priests about the breasts
And in the midst of the candlesticks, one like unto the son of man clothed with a linen garment down to the ground, and gird about the paps with a golden girdle.
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Girdles » Illustrative of » Truth
Stand, therefore, and your loins gird about with verity, having on the breastplate of righteousness,
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Girdles » Given as » A reward of military service
And Joab said unto him that told him, "Lo, sawest thou him? And why didst thou not there smite him to the ground, that I should have given thee ten sicles of silver and a soldier's girdle?"
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Girdles » Made for sale by industrious women
She maketh cloth of silk and selleth it, and delivereth a girdle unto the merchant.
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Girdles » Given as » A token of friendship
And Jonathan put off his own coat that was upon him, and gave it David, and thereto his mantle, his sword, his bow and his girdle.
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Girdles » Made of » Fine linen
I gave thee change of raiments; I made thee shoes of Taxus leather; I girded thee about with white silk; I clothed thee with kerchiefs;
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Girdles » Made of » Twined linen with blue purple, &c
and a girdle of twined bysse, jacinth, scarlet and purple: even of needle work, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Girdles » Illustrative of » Righteousness of Christ
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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Girdles » Illustrative of » Faithfulness of Christ
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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Girdles » Illustrative of » Gladness
Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.
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Girdles » Used for » Suspending the inkhorn
Then came there six men out of the street of the upper port toward the north, and every man a weapon in his hand to the slaughter. There was one amongst them, that had on him a linen raiment, and a writer's inkhorn by his side. These went in, and stood beside the brazen altar:
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