περιζωννύω

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English (Thayer)

or περιζώννυμι: middle, 1future περιζώσομαι; 1st aorist imperative περίζωσαι, participle περιζωσάμενος; perfect passive participle περιεζωσμένος; to gird around (περί, III:1); to fasten garments with a girdle: τήν ὀσφύν, to fasten one's clothing about the loins with a girdle (to gird oneself: absolutely, τήν ὀσφύν ἐν ἀλήθεια, with truth as a girdle, figuratively equivalent to to equip oneself with knowledge of the truth, Sept., as σάκκον, στολήν δόξης, δύναμιν, εὐφροσύνην, Buttmann, § 135,2)): πρός τοῖς μαστοῖς ζώνην, ζώνας περί τά στήθη, Aristophanes, Polybius, Pausanias, Plutarch, others; the Sept. for חָגַר and אָזַר). Cf. ἀναζώννυμι.