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NASB					Mark 1:6 John²⁴⁹¹ was clothed^1746a with camel's²⁵⁷⁴ hair²³⁵⁹ and wore ^Aa leather¹¹⁹³ belt²²²³ around⁴⁰¹² his waist³⁷⁵¹, and ¹his diet²⁰⁶⁸ was locusts²⁰⁰ and wild⁶⁶ honey³¹⁹².
AMPLIFIED 2015					Mark 1:6 John wore clothing made of camel's hair and had a [wide] leather ¹band around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. [Lev 11:22; 2 Kin 1:8]

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Lit he was eating

Amplified 2015 Translator's Notes:
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This band (sash, girdle) was about six inches wide and had clasps or fasteners in front. It was used to carry personal items such as a dagger, money or other necessary things.

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2 Kin 1:8 They answered him, "He was a hairy man with a leather girdle bound about his loins." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."

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Greek Heb.

agrios; from 68; living in the fields, wild, savage, fierce:--wild(3).

200

akris; a prim. word; a locust:--locusts(4).

1193

dermatinos; from 1192; made of skin, leathern:--leather(2).

1746a

enduô; from 1722 and the same as 1416; to clothe or be clothed with (in the sense of sinking into a garment):--clothed(6), dressed(1), enter(1), put(21).

2068

esthiô; akin to edô (to eat); to eat:--ate(21), consume(2), diet(1), dine(1), does so(1), eat(96), eaten(2), eating(19), eats(11), feed(2), use(1).

2223

zônê; from 2224; a belt:--belt(5), belts(1), money belts(1), sash(1), sashes(1).

2359

thrix; a prim. word; hair:--hair(13), hairs(2).

2491

Iôannês; of Heb. or. [3110]; John, the name of several Isr.:--John(131), John's(4).

2574

kamêlos; of Heb. or. [1581]; camel:--camel(4), camel's(2).

3192

meli; a prim. word; honey:--honey(4).

3751

osphus; a prim. word; the loin:--descendants*(1), descended*(1), loins(2), waist(2).

4012

peri; a prim. prep.; about, concerning, around (denotes place, cause or subject):--about(103), about*(1), against(4), all around(1), around(12), around*(1), because(2), behalf(4), case*(1), cause*(1), circumstances*(1), companions*(1), concerning(48), condition*(1), connection(2), followers*(1), help(1), neighborhood(1), over(1), over...about(1), refers(1), regard(3), regarding(4), vicinity(1).

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