Matthew 3:4

New Testament • 13 words with Strong's data

"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."

Word-by-Word Analysis

And the same

Ἰωάννης

Iōánnēs

G2491

Joannes (i.e. Jochanan), the name of four Israelites

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had his

בֶּגֶד

beged

H899

a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage

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of

אֲחַשְׁתָּרָן

ʼăchashtârân

H327

a mule

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שֵׂעָר

sêʻâr

H8181

hair (as if tossed or bristling)

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and a

δερμάτινος

dermátinos

G1193

made of hide

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חֵשֶׁב

chêsheb

H2805

a belt or strap (as being interlaced)

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סָבִיב

çâbîyb

H5439

(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around

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his

מֹתֶן

môthen

H4975

properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins

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and his

אֹכֶל

ʼôkel

H400

food

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was

אַרְבֶּה

ʼarbeh

H697

a locust (from its rapid increase)

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and

שָׂדֶה

sâdeh

H7704

a field (as flat)

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דְּבַשׁ

dᵉbash

H1706

honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup

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Key Terms in This Verse

leathern G1193

δερμάτινος dermátinos

made of hide

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camel H327

אֲחַשְׁתָּרָן ʼăchashtârân

a mule

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locusts H697

אַרְבֶּה ʼarbeh

a locust (from its rapid increase)

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girdle H2805

חֵשֶׁב chêsheb

a belt or strap (as being interlaced)

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wild H7704

שָׂדֶה sâdeh

a field (as flat)

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honey H1706

דְּבַשׁ dᵉbash

honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup

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raiment H899

בֶּגֶד beged

a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage

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loins H4975

מֹתֶן môthen

properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins

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hair H8181

שֵׂעָר sêʻâr

hair (as if tossed or bristling)

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John G2491

Ἰωάννης Iōánnēs

Joannes (i.e. Jochanan), the name of four Israelites

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Cross References

2 Kings 1:8 cross-reference

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.

Mark 1:6 cross-reference

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;

Zechariah 13:4 cross-reference

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:

Leviticus 11:22 cross-reference

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.

Matthew 11:8 cross-reference

But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

Malachi 4:5 cross-reference

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

Luke 1:17 cross-reference

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the L...

Deuteronomy 32:13 cross-reference

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Revelation 11:3 cross-reference

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Matthew 11:18 cross-reference

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.

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