אָזַר ʼâzar — to belt
Translated in the KJV as bind about, gird (up, with).
a primitive root; to belt.
ʼâzar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Imperative 2Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (passive) 1
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
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.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 3Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
Hitpa'el
Imperative 2Perfect (qatal) 1
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.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›