Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
KJV Usage: be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, X on every side
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָגַר (cha.gar) — to gird. 1) to gird, gird on, gird oneself, put on a belt 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to gird 1a2) to gird on, bind on 1a3) to gird oneself
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · חָגֹור · חֲגֹור · חֲגֹורָה · מַחֲגֹרֶת
Dress | verb qal
to be girded with, to wear (clothes, armor) = state in which someone wears clothes or armor
EXO 12:11 · JDG 18:11 · JDG 18:16 · JDG 18:17 · 1SA 2:18 · 2SA 6:14 · 2SA 20:8 · 2SA 21:16 · DAN 10:5 · JOL 1:8
Dress | verb qal | ≠ פתח
to gird oneself, to put on (clothes, armor) = action by which someone ties a belt or piece of cloth around the waist; hence also: to put on clothes or armor
LEV 16:4 · DEU 1:41 · JDG 3:16 · 1SA 17:39 · 1SA 25:13 · 1SA 25:13 · 1SA 25:13 · 2SA 3:31 · 1KI 20:11 · 1KI 20:32 · 2KI 3:21 · PSA 45:4 · PSA 65:13 · PSA 76:11 · PSA 109:19 · ISA 15:3 · ISA 22:12 · ISA 32:11 · JER 4:8 · JER 6:26 · JER 49:3 · LAM 2:10 · EZK 7:18 · EZK 27:31 · EZK 44:18 · JOL 1:13
Dress | verb qal
to gird = causative action by which someone ties a belt or piece of cloth around someone else's waist
Dress | verb qal
Collocation: חגר מָתְנַיִם
to gird one's loins, to tuck one's cloak into one's belt, to tie up one's skirts literally: to gird (one's) loins; hence: = action by which humans pull up their robes and tie a belt or piece of cloth around their waist to keep it in place, ► in order to be able walk or work without being hampered
Strong | verb qal
Collocation: חגר מָתְנַיִם בְּעֹוז
to summon (one's) strength literally: to gird (one's) loins with strength; hence: = action by which humans rally their physical strength
verb
1 PSA 76:11 The text of this verse is obscure | this interpretation is one of the suggestions by HOTTP | the idea of sackcloth, however, is not explicitly in the text. 2 2SA 22:46 MT HOTTP-B | parallel text in Psalm 18:46 חרג "tremble" | HOTTP allows translation "to tremble" as well, as is done by RSV NIV NJB NJPS NRSV REB GNT CEV.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[חָגַר] vb. gird, gird on, gird oneself base