שָׁנַס shânaç — to compress (with a belt)
Translated in the KJV as gird up.
a primitive root; to compress (with a belt).
shânaç in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיְשַׁנֵּ֖ס 1Kgs 18:46 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
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 ›