Strong's Concordance anazónnumi: to gird up Original Word: ἀναζώννυμιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: anazónnumi Phonetic Spelling: (an-ad-zone'-noo-mee) Short Definition: I gird up, brace up Definition: I gird up, brace up (with a view to active exertion); a metaphor from the girding of the flowing tunic, to prevent its hampering one in active work. HELPS Word-studies 328 anazṓnnymi (from 303 /aná, "up to down" and 2224 /zṓnnymi, "gird, take out slack") – properly, raise up a tunic (= "tighten the belt"), "girding oneself"; (figuratively) getting ready (prepared) to move quickly, i.e. where someone needs to go and arrive at without delay (used only in 1 Pet 1:13). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 328: ἀναζώννυμιἀναζώννυμι: to gird up; middle to gird up oneself or for oneself: ἀναζωσάμενοι τάς ὀσφύας, 1 Peter 1:13, i. e. prepared — a metaphor derived from the practice of the Orientals, who in order to be unimpeded in their movements were accustomed, when about to start on a journey or engage in any work, to bind their long and flowing garments closely around their bodies and fasten them with a leathern girdle; cf. περιζώννυμι. (the Sept. Judges 18:16; Proverbs 29:35 Strong's Exhaustive Concordance gird up. From ana and zonnumi; to gird afresh -- gird up. see GREEK ana see GREEK zonnumi Forms and Transliterations αναζωσαμένη αναζωσαμενοι αναζωσάμενοι ἀναζωσάμενοι anazosamenoi anazosámenoi anazōsamenoi anazōsámenoiLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 3281 Occurrence ἀναζωσάμενοι — 1 Occ. 1 Peter 1:13 V-APM-NMP GRK: Διὸ ἀναζωσάμενοι τὰς ὀσφύας NAS: Therefore, prepare your minds KJV: Wherefore gird up the loins of your INT: Therefore having girded up the waist |