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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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περιζώννυμι

Strong’s: G4024

Associated OET lemmas: περιζωννύω

Other spellings: περιζώννυμαι

Notes: περιζώννυμαι appears to differ in meaning from ζωννύω[a] (49.14: διαζώννυμι / 49.14: ζωννύω) primarily in emphasizing the fact of a strip of cloth being around the middle part of the body.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: περιζώννυμι; fut.midd.; περιζώσομαι; περιζώννυμι; aor.midd.ptc.; περιζωσάμενος; περιζώννυμι; pf.midd.ptc.; περιεζωσμένος

Related lemmas: ζώννυμι

Sense 1: to gird oneself, to be girded, to be tied around

Semantic entry: 49.15

Semantic domains: Activities Involving Clothing and Adorning

Definition: to have a belt or sash around oneself{N:001}

LUK 12:37: OET LUK 12:37 (RV-only LUK 12:37 · LV-only LUK 12:37)

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OET-RV LUK 12:37

37 The master would bless the slaves that are ready, watching for when he arrives. I can assure you that he’ll dress himself and then he’ll seat them on couches and come and serve them there himself.

OET-LV LUK 12:37

37 Blessed are the those slaves, whom the master having_come, will_be_finding watching.
Truly, I_am_saying to_you_all that he_will_be_girding_about himself and will_be_reclining them, and having_come_up, he_will_be_serving unto_them.

LUK 17:8: OET LUK 17:8 (RV-only LUK 17:8 · LV-only LUK 17:8)

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OET-RV LUK 17:8

8 No, you’d be saying, ‘Get the meal ready for me and then after you’ve changed, come and wait on me as I eat and drink, then after that you can eat and drink.’

OET-LV LUK 17:8

8 But not he_will_be_saying to_him:
Prepare what I_may_dine, and having_girded_about be_serving unto_me, until I_may_eat and I_may_drink, and after these things you will_be_eating and will_be_drinking?
All 4 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: OET LUK 12:37 · OET LUK 17:8 (RV-only LUK 12:37 · RV-only LUK 17:8 · LV-only LUK 12:37 · LV-only LUK 17:8)

REV: OET REV 1:13 · OET REV 15:6 (RV-only REV 1:13 · RV-only REV 15:6 · LV-only REV 1:13 · LV-only REV 15:6)

Sense 2: to get ready, to prepare oneself

Semantic entry: 77.5

Semantic domains: Ready, Prepared

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to gird up the loins) to cause oneself to be in a state of readiness

Notes: In the context of OET EPH 6:14 (RV-only EPH 6:14 · LV-only EPH 6:14), it may be useful to preserve the extended figure of readiness for warfare beginning with OET EPH 6:13 (RV-only EPH 6:13 · LV-only EPH 6:13) and extending through OET EPH 6:17 (RV-only EPH 6:17 · LV-only EPH 6:17).

Collocations: περιζώννυμαι τὴν ὀσφύν

LUK 12:35: OET LUK 12:35 (RV-only LUK 12:35 · LV-only LUK 12:35)

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OET-RV LUK 12:35

35 “Get up and get dressed and get the lamps burning

OET-LV LUK 12:35

35 Let_be the loins of_you_all having_been_girded_about, and the lamps being_burned,

EPH 6:14: OET EPH 6:14 (RV-only EPH 6:14 · LV-only EPH 6:14)

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OET-RV EPH 6:14

14 So then, stand with the belt of truth around your waist, wearing the breastplate of righteousness,

OET-LV EPH 6:14

14 Therefore stand:
having_girded_about the waist of_you_all with truth, and having_dressed_in the breastplate of_ the _righteousness,