| Lexical Summary shanas: to gird upOriginal Word: שָׁנַס Transliteration: shanas Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-nas') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to gird up Meaning: to compress Strong's Concordancegird up A primitive root; to compress (with a belt) -- gird up. Brown-Driver-Briggs H8151. shanas [שָׁנַס] verb Pi`el gird up (si vera lectio; in Talmud (Aramaic) שְׁנַץ = bind sandals; Late Hebrew שֶׁנֶץ thong); — Imperfect3masculine singular וַיָּ֫רָץ מָתְנָיו וַיְשַׁנֵּס 1 Kings 18:46. שְׁנָת Psalm 132:4 see שֵׁנָה. | 



