King James Version
Jeremiah 13:2 in the King James Version says “So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.”
Jeremiah 13:2 · KJV
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“So I got”
H7069to erect, i.e., create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“according to the word”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“and put”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“it on my loins”
H4975properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
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