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# שִׁרְיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew

**body-armour** — used 8 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

body-armour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5e8_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁרְיוֹן: body-armour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5e8_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] body-armour;—abs. שִׁרְיוֹן 1 S 17:5, 38; שִׁרְיָ֑ן (Ges§ 29 u) 1 K 22:34 = 2 Ch 18:33, שִׁרְיָ֔ן Is 59:17; pl. שִׁרְיֹנִים Ne 4:10, שִׁרְיֹנוֹת 2 Ch 26:14;—body-armour, perhaps more exactly breast-armour, Ne 4:10; with appendages (הַדָּבָקִים) 1 K 22:34 = 2 Ch 18:33; c. vb. לבשׁ 1 S 17:5, made of scale-like plates (קַשְׂקַשִּׂים) of bronze v 5, named with helmet here, so v 38 2 Ch 26:14 and (fig.) Is 59:17.—שׁ׳ n.pr. v. שׂריון.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: armor (3); body armor (2); armor(s) (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.5/#tree)

וְכ֤וֹבַע נְחֹ֙שֶׁת֙ עַל־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וְשִׁרְי֥וֹן קַשְׂקַשִּׂ֖ים ה֣וּא לָב֑וּשׁ וּמִשְׁקַל֙ הַשִּׁרְי֔וֹן חֲמֵשֶׁת־אֲלָפִ֥ים שְׁקָלִ֖ים נְחֹֽשֶֽׁת׃

*Word for word:* and a.helmet of.bronze \[was\].on head his and body.armor of.scales he \[was\].clothed and the.weight of the.body.armor \[was\].five thousand(s) shekels bronze

*JPS 1917:* And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

[1 Samuel 17:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.38/#tree)

וַיַּלְבֵּ֨שׁ שָׁא֤וּל אֶת־דָּוִד֙ מַדָּ֔יו וְנָתַ֛ן ק֥וֹבַע נְחֹ֖שֶׁת עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיַּלְבֵּ֥שׁ אֹת֖וֹ שִׁרְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and he.clothed Saul (et) David garments his and he.put a.helmet of.bronze on head his and he.clothed him body.armor

*JPS 1917:* And Saul clad David with his apparel, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5e8_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).