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# כּוֹבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3553

**helmet** — used 6 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

helmet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3553/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כּוֹבַע: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3553/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. helmet (√ dub.; NH כּוֹבַע, Aramaic כּוֹבְעָא turban; cf. קוֹבַע Ez 23:24)—abs. כ׳ Ez 27:10; כּוֹבָ֑ע 38:5; cstr. כּ֫וֹבַע (Ew§ 213 f.) 1 S 17:5 Is 59:17; pl. כּוֹבָעִים Je 46:4 2 Ch 26:14;—helmet, of bronze כ׳ נְחשֶׁת עַל־רֹאשׁוֹ 1 S 17:5; Je 46:4 Ez 27:10; 38:5 2 Ch 26:14; fig. of י׳, וַיִּלְבַּשׁ צְדָקָה כַּשִּׁרְיָן וְכ׳ יְשׁוּעָה בְּרֹאשׁוֹ Is 59:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 38:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.5/#tree)

פָּרַ֛ס כּ֥וּשׁ וּפ֖וּט אִתָּ֑ם כֻּלָּ֖ם מָגֵ֥ן וְכוֹבָֽע׃

*Word for word:* Persia Cush and Put \[will be\].with.them of.them all shield and helmet

*JPS 1917:* Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

[Jeremiah 46:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.4/#tree)

אִסְר֣וּ הַסּוּסִ֗ים וַֽעֲלוּ֙ הַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔ים וְהִֽתְיַצְּב֖וּ בְּכ֥וֹבָעִ֑ים מִרְקוּ֙ הָֽרְמָחִ֔ים לִבְשׁ֖וּ הַסִּרְיֹנֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* harness the horses and mount the warhorses and take.your.stand with helmets polish the spears put.on the armor

*JPS 1917:* Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3553.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3553/): 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).