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
Ἰωάννης
Iōánnēs
Joannes (i.e. Jochanan), the name of four Israelites
בֶּגֶד
beged
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
חֵשֶׁב
chêsheb
a belt or strap (as being interlaced)
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
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 →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.
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;
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:
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.
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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...
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;
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
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