Lexical Summary diazōnnymi: to gird around Original Word: διαζώννυμιTransliteration: diazōnnymi Phonetic Spelling: (dee-az-own'-noo-mee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to gird around Meaning: to gird around Strong's Concordance gird, put onFrom dia and zonnumi; to gird tightly -- gird. see GREEK dia see GREEK zonnumi Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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. |