Mark 1:6
New Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
Ἰωάννης
Iōánnēs
Joannes (i.e. Jochanan), the name of four Israelites
לָבַשׁ
lâbash
properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on agarment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
חֵשֶׁב
chêsheb
a belt or strap (as being interlaced)
עוֹר
ʻôwr
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
סָבִיב
çâbîyb
(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
מֹתֶן
môthen
properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
אַרְבֶּה
ʼarbeh
a locust (from its rapid increase)
דְּבַשׁ
dᵉbash
honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup
Key Terms in This Verse
מֹתֶן môthen
properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
Study H4975 →לָבַשׁ lâbash
properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on agarment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
Study H3847 →Cross References
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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