Thayer's
STRONGS NT 1241: διαζωννύωδιαζωννύω or
διαζώννυμι: 1 aorist
διέζωσα; 1 aorist middle
διεζωσαμην; perfect passive preposition
διεζωσμένος;
to bind or gird all around (
διά; this force of the preposition appears in the tropical use of the verb in
Plutarch, Brut. 31, 2
ὡς δ' ἡ φλόξ ῥυεις καί διαζώσασα πανταχόθεν τήν πόλιν διελαμψε πολλή):
ἑαυτόν,
John 13:4; passive
διαζωννυμαι τί to be girded:
ᾧ (by attraction for
ὁ (yet cf. Meyer))
ἥν διεζωσμένος,
John 13:5; middle
διαζωννυμαι τί, "to gird oneself with a thing, gird a thing around oneself:
John 21:7; (
Ezekiel 23:15 (
Alex.). in Greek writings occasionally from
Thucydides on). Cf.
Winer's De verb. camp. etc. Part v., p. 13.