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What Is Girdle in the Bible?

Object

A belt of leather or cloth to hold clothing in place.

Today

It is a belt. (Today a “girdle” is also a kind of underwear; here it is not.)

Where it appears in the Bible

Mark 1:6

What the Bible says

Mark 1:6

And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “ceñidor”

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