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כְּתֹנֶת

kᵉthôneth · H3801 · Hebrew · 29 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Meanings

  1. a tunic

    An undergarment woven of linen, worn by the High Priest and his fellow priests over the breeches and next to the skin from the waist up, probably long-sleeved, reaching nearly to the ankles and held by a sash

    Examples

    Exodus 28:4 “And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a tunic of checkered work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that he may serve as priest to Me.

    Exodus 28:39 “And you shall weave the tunic of checkered work of fine linen, and shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of a weaver.

    Exodus 28:40 “For Aaron’s sons you shall also make tunics; you shall also make sashes for them, and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for beauty.

  2. a robe with sleeves

    A long robe with sleeves, often worn by young unmarried men and women and considered valuable

    Examples

    Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a multicolored tunic.

    Genesis 37:23 So it came about, when Joseph reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the multicolored tunic that was on him;

    Genesis 37:31 So they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood;

  3. clothes

    A general term for clothing, made of fiber cloth or animal skin, for covering the body

    Examples

    Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

    2 Samuel 15:32 It happened as David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, that behold, Hushai the Archite met him with his coat torn, and dust on his head.

    Job 30:18 “By a great force my garment is distorted; It ties me up like the collar of my coat.

How it’s used In 10 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

20 occurrences in 11 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

5 occurrences in 5 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

13 occurrences in 9 groups

Second object ofSecond object

6 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
χιτών chitṓn · G5509 · tunic, shirt, clothing
Greek χιτών (tunic/shirt) is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew כְּתֹנֶת (coat/garment/robe), both denoting the same inner garment worn next to the skin, establishing direct translation equivalence across the Hebrew Bible and its Greek translation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Clothing001003001001002
This word denotes a tunic, coat, or robe, an article of clothing worn next to the body, so it belongs among clothing terms.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3801. kethoneth or kuttoneth כְּתֹ֫נֶת כֻּתֹּ֫נֶת, noun feminine tunic (Late Hebrew id.;…
H3801. kethoneth
or kuttoneth כְּתֹ֫נֶת כֻּתֹּ֫נֶת, noun feminine tunic (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כִּתּוּנָא. etc., etc.; Ethiopic tunic, linen; compare also √ above); — absolute כֻּתֹּנֶת Gen 37:31 Gen 37:2t.; כְּתֹנֶת Exo 28:39; construct כְּתֹנֶת Gen 37:3 Gen 37:9t.; suffix כֻּתָּנְתּוֺ Gen 37:23; 2Sa 15:32, כֻּתָּנְתֶּ֑ךָ Isa 22:21, כֻּתָּנְתִּי Job 30:18; Son 5:3; plural absolute כֻּתֳּנֹת Exo 28:40 Exo 28:3t., הַכָּתְנֹת Exo 39:27; construct כָּתְנוֺת Gen 3:21 Gen 3:2t., כָּתְנֹת Ezr 2:69; suffix כֻּתֳּנֹתָם Lev 10:5; — tunic, principal ordinary garment (see BenzArchaeology 98 f. NowArchaeology i, 121, 193) of man and woman, worn next the person, עוֺר כָּתְנֹת Gen 3:21 tunics of skin; of man 2Sa 15:32; כ ׳מִּי Job 30:18 mouth of any tunic (i.e. its collar); מַּסִּים׳כ Gen 37:3, Gen 37:23, Gen 37:32 i.e. tunic with long skirts and sleeves (see מַּס), compare Gen 37:23; Gen 37:31; Gen 37:31; Gen 37:32; Gen 37:33; of woman Son 5:3 (put off at night); ׳כ מַּסִּים 2Sa 13:18-19, (of king's daughter; rent, as sign of grief, compare also 2Sa 15:32, and see קרע). Specifically of priest's tunic Exo 28:4, Exo 28:39 (embroidered, see תַּשְׁבֵּץ שׁבץ,), Exo 28:40; Exo 29:5, Exo 29:8; Exo 39:27 (made of שֵׁשׁ, q. v.), Exo 40:14; Lev 8:7, Lev 8:13; Lev 10:5; קֹדֶשׁ׳כּ בַּֿד Lev 16:4 a holy linen tunic, of high priest; כֹּֿהֲנִים׳כ Ezr 2:69; Neh 7:69, Neh 7:71 (van d. H. Neh 7:70; Neh 7:72); of Shebna's official tunic Isa 22:21.
כתף (√ of following; meaning unknown).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Clothing28 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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