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Notes: It is possible that διαζώννυμι is somewhat more forceful in meaning than ζώννυμι[a], but this cannot be determined from existing contexts.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: διαζώννυμι; aor.; διέζωσα; διαζώννυμι; aor.midd.; διεζωσάμην; διαζώννυμι; pf.pass.ptc.; διεζωσμένος

Related lemmas: ζώννυμι

Sense 1: to gird, to fasten one’s belt, to wear a narrow band of cloth around the waist, to tie around the waist.

Semantic entry: 49.14

Semantic domains: Activities Involving Clothing and Adorning

Definition: to tuck up or hold a garment firmly in place by wrapping a belt, girdle, or piece of cloth around it (compare ζώνη belt; girdle; 6.178: ζώνη){N:001}

JHN 13:4: OET JHN 13:4 (RV-only JHN 13:4 · LV-only JHN 13:4)

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OET-RV JHN 13:4

4 So he got up from the dinner table, changed out of his clothes, and wrapped a linen towel around himself.

OET-LV JHN 13:4

4 he _is _being _raised from the supper and is _laying aside his clothes, and having _taken a_linen _towel he _girded himself.

JHN 13:5: OET JHN 13:5 (RV-only JHN 13:5 · LV-only JHN 13:5)

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OET-RV JHN 13:5

5 Then he put water into the wash bowl and started washing the feet of his apprentices, wiping them dry with the linen towel that he was wearing wrapped around him.

OET-LV JHN 13:5

5 Thereafter he _is _putting water into the wash _basin, and began to _be _washing the feet of _the apprentices/followers, and to _be _wiping _off them with _the linen _towel with _which he _was having _been _girded.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

JHN: OET JHN 13:4–5 · OET JHN 21:7 (RV-only JHN 13:4–5 · RV-only JHN 21:7 · LV-only JHN 13:4–5 · LV-only JHN 21:7)

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

διαζώννυμι

Form 1

Sense 1: to gird, to fasten one’s belt, to wear a narrow band of cloth around the waist, to tie around the waist.