אזור

Compare Arabic إِزَار (ʔizār).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /eˈzoʁ/

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אֵזוֹר • (ezór) m (plural indefinite איזורים / אֵזוֹרִים, singular construct אֵזוֹר־, plural construct איזורי / אֵזוֹרֵי־)

1. (archaic) a girdle

   Synonym: חֲגוֹרָה (khagorá)

   • Tanach, Jeremiah 13:1, with translation of the King James Version:

     כֹּה־אָמַר […] אֵלַי הָלוֹךְ וְקָנִיתָ לְּךָ אֵזוֹר פִּשְׁתִּים וְשַׂמְתּוֹ עַל־מׇתְנֶיךָ וּבַמַּיִם לֹא תְבִאֵהוּ׃

     ko-amar […] elai halokh v'kanita l'kha ezor pishtim v'samto al-motnékha uvamayim lo t'viehu.

     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.

2. an area, region, zone

   בית ספר באזור הדירה שלי

   béit-séfer b'ezór-hadirá shelí

   a school in the area of my apartment

3. (military) a sector

• H232 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “אזור” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

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