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# חֹשֶׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2833

**breast-piece** — used 25 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

breast-piece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2833/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹ֫שֶׁן: n.m. breast-piece sacred pouch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2833/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. the breast-piece or sacred pouch, containing the אורים ותמים, worn on the breast of the high priest when he ministered in the Holy Place to bring the tribes for memorial before. י׳. It was made of the same material as the ephod (v. אֵפוֹד), a span square; set in front with twelve jewels in four rows, engraved with the names of the twelve tribes. It was firmly fastened to the shoulders of the ephod by gold chains passing through gold rings, and to the lower part of the ephod just above the girdle by a blue ribbon passing through other gold rings. It was חשֶׁן (ה)מִשְׁפָּט (Ex 28:15, 29, 30) pouch of judgment, because of the decision given by the אוּרִים וְתֻמִּים. The name occurs only in P, Ex 25:7; 28:4, 15, 22, 23(×2), 24, 26, 28(×2), 29, 30; 29:5; 35:9, 27; 39:8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21(×2) Lv 8:8(×2).—Vid. NowArch. ii. 119.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: breastpiece (15); the breastpiece (8); a breastpiece (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.22/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֧יתָ עַל־הַחֹ֛שֶׁן שַֽׁרְשֹׁ֥ת גַּבְלֻ֖ת מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה עֲבֹ֑ת זָהָ֖ב טָהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make on the breastpiece chains of.twisting a.work of.cordage gold pure

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make upon the breastplate plaited chains of wreathen work of pure gold.

[Exodus 39:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.15/#tree)

וַיַּעֲשׂ֧וּ עַל־הַחֹ֛שֶׁן שַׁרְשְׁרֹ֥ת גַּבְלֻ֖ת מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה עֲבֹ֑ת זָהָ֖ב טָהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and they.made on the breastpiece chains of.twisting a.work of.cordage gold pure

*JPS 1917:* And they made upon the breastplate plaited chains, of wreathen work of pure gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2833.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2833/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).