διαζωννύω or διαζώννυμι: 1 aorist διέζωσα; 1 aorist middle διεζωσαμην; perfect passive preposition διεζωσμένος; to bind or gird all around (διά; this force of the preposition appears in the tropical use of the verb in Plutarch, Brut. 31, 2 ὡς δ' ἡ φλόξ ῥυεις καί διαζώσασα πανταχόθεν τήν πόλιν διελαμψε πολλή): ἑαυτόν, Joh_13:4; passive διαζωννυμαι τί to be girded: ᾧ (by attraction for ὁ (yet cf. Meyer)) ἥν διεζωσμένος, Joh_13:5; middle διαζωννυμαι τί, "to gird oneself with a thing, gird a thing around oneself: Joh_21:7; (Eze_23:15 (Alex.). in Greek writings occasionally from Thucydides on). Cf. Winer's De verb. camp. etc. Part v., p. 13.

διαζώννυμι dia zōnnymi 3x to gird firmly round, Joh_13:4-5 ; mid. to gird round one s self, Joh_21:7

δια -ζώννυμι , (also -ννύω ), [in LXX for H2290 , Eze_23:15 A * ;] to gird round: ἑαυτόν , Joh_13:4-5 ; pass ., Joh_13:5 ; mid ., to gird oneself with: c . acc , Joh_21:7 . †

διαζωννύω (~ διαζώννυμι ) [page 148] For this word, which is found ter in John s Gospel ( Joh_13:4-5 ; Joh_21:7 ), cf. IG II. 736 B .16 (B.C. 307). See also BCH x. (1886) p. 465 .103 (B.C. 364) κλιμάκιον ξύλινον περικεχρυσωμένον ὄφεσιν ἀργυροῖς διεζωμένον , and ib. xiv. (1890) p. 405 .35 (B.C. 279). For the subst. διάζωμα cf. BGU IV. 1188 .7 (B.C. 15 4) τοῦ κατὰ τὴν κώμην ἀγομένου δημοσίο [υ ] δι̣α̣ζ̣ώματος , where however the editor notes that the reading is not quite certain.

διαζώννυμι or -ύω fut. -ζώσω "to gird round the middle":—Mid. "to gird oneself with", ἐσθῆτα, Luc. :— Pass., διεζωσμένοι "wearing drawers", Thuc. metaph. "to engirdle, encompass", Plut.

δια-ζώννυμι, (also -ννύω) [in LXX for חֲגוֹר, Eze.23:15 A * ;] to gird round: ἑαυτόν, Jhn.13:4; pass., ib. 13:5; mid., to gird oneself with: with accusative, Jhn.21:7.† (AS)