διαζωννύω

English (Thayer)

or διαζώννυμι: 1st aorist διέζωσα; 1st 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, διαζωννυμαι τί to be girded: ᾧ (by attraction for ὁ (yet cf. Meyer)) ἥν διεζωσμένος, διαζωννυμαι τί, "to gird oneself with a thing, gird a thing around oneself: Alex.). in Greek writings occasionally from Thucydides on). Cf. Winer's De verb. camp. etc. Part v., p. 13.