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Gird up ones loins - Definition of Gird up ones loins at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Gird up ones loins. Look it up now! ... gird or gird up one's loins, to prepare oneself for something requiring readiness, strength, or endurance: He girded his loins to face...
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"Gird Up One’s Loins" (...) GoEnglish.com teaches the meanings and uses of English idioms, idiomatic phrases and expressions such as gird up one’s loins. ... GoEnglish.com teaches the meanings and uses of English idioms, idiomatic phrases and expressions such as gird up one’s loins (...). Our goal for the lesson "Today...
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Likely a Hebraism, often used in the King James Bible (e.g., 2 Kings 4:29). Literally referred to the need to strap a belt around one's waist when getting up in order to avoid the cloak falling off. ... to gird up one’s loins...
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to gird (third-person singular simple present girds, present participle girding, simple past and past participle girded or girt) ... Infinitive; to gird ... gird up one’s loins...
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Don't cut training--we need full emergency management programs. I made this mistake once and it is hard to build a program back up, and no one cares that it is gone. ... It seems to be a sour note to end on in this season of joy. So, just gird up your loins, 2010 will be an amazing race.
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17. gird . loins-resolutely prepare for thy appointed task. Metaphor from the flowing robes worn in the East, which have to be girt up with a girdle, so as not to incommode one, when undertaking any active work (Job 38:3;
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Now Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth-gilead. ... to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.) -- be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, on every side.
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; "Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them. ... American Standard Version; Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them.
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then he tucked up his robe so his legs would not be hindered. This is the meaning of girded up his loins (I Kings 18:46). To gird up the loins of your mind (I Peter 1:13) means to prepare for strenuous mental activity, and warns of the necessity to guard your mind (Proverbs 4:23).
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