Quick Definition
ἀναζώννυμι v. I gird up, brace up
Strong's Definition
from 303 and 2224; to gird afresh
KJV Usage: gird up
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor.midd.ptc. ἀναζωσάμενος | ζώννυμι
27.55 · Learn · Be Ready To Learn, Pay Attention
Collocation: ἀναζώννυμαι τὰς ὀσφύας τῆς διανοίας
to get one’s mind ready for action, to be ready to learn and to think, to be alert (an idiom, literally: to bind up the loins of the mind) to prepare oneself for learning and thinking
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνα-ζώννυμι : to gird up; mid. to gird up one’s self or for one’s self: ἀναζωσάμενοι tas ὀσφύας, 1 Pet. i. 13, 1. 6. 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. περιζώννυμε. (Sept. Jude. xviii. 16; Prov. xxix. 35 (xxxi. 17); Dio Chrys. or. 72, 2, ed. Emp. p. 729; Didym. ap. Athen. 4, (17) p. 139 Ὁ: 31.}
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀναζώννυμι anazōnnymi 1x
to gird with a belt or girdle; to gird one’s self, 1 Pet. 1:13*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† ἀνα-ζώννυμι,
[in LXX: Jg 18:16, Pr 31:17 (חגר)*;]
to gird up: fig., τ. ὀσφύας τ. διανοίας, I Pe 1:13.†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀναζώννυμι (anazōnnumi) — to gird. ἀναζώννῡμι or ἀναζωννύω, future -ζώσω, gird up again, recall to service, metaphorically, τινὰ ἐπὶ τοὺς λόγους[Refs 4th c.AD+] —middle, ἀ. τὰς ὀσφύας gird up one's loins, [NT+4th c.AD+]; ἀνεζωσμένοι, Latin alte praecincti, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, to be held in check, of passions, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
2. middle, with accusative, πόλεμον embark on, [Refs 4th c.BC+]