ketonet · tunic, robe

What it means

ketonet (כְּתֹנֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tunic, robe”.

A long garment covering the body.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A long piece of clothing, like Joseph's.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• robe ×10
• tunic ×9
• tunics ×9
• garments ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×7
• Leviticus×4
• 2 Samuel×3
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 3:21

  And YHWH Elohim made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin and clothed them.

• Genesis 37:3

  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long robe.

• Genesis 37:23

  When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his robe, the long robe that was on him;

• Genesis 37:31

  They took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the robe in the blood.

• Genesis 37:32

  They sent the long robe and brought it to their father and said, “This we have found; recognize, please, whether it is the robe of your son or not.”

• Genesis 37:33

  He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A fierce animal has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

• Exodus 28:4

  These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a checkered tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and for his sons to serve as priests for me.

• Exodus 28:39

  You shall weave the tunic of fine linen, and make a turban of fine linen, and a sash you shall make, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 28:40

  For the sons of Aaron you shall make tunics, and you shall make for them sashes, and caps you shall make for them, for honor and for beauty.

• Exodus 29:5

  You shall take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the woven band of the ephod.

• Exodus 29:8

  His sons you shall bring near and clothe them with tunics.

• Exodus 39:27

  And they made the tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons;

• Exodus 40:14

  And his sons you shall bring near and clothe them with tunics.

• Leviticus 8:7

  He put on him the tunic, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, put on him the ephod, and girded him with the band of the ephod, and bound it to him with it.

• Leviticus 8:13

  Moses brought near the sons of Aaron, clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and bound caps on them, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 10:5

  They came near and carried them in their tunics to outside the camp, as Moses had said.

• Leviticus 16:4

  He shall put on a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments shall be on his body, and he shall tie a linen sash around him, and wrap his head with a linen turban; they are holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and put them on.

• 2 Samuel 13:18

  She was wearing a long robe, for so the king’s virgin daughters used to dress, in robes. His attendant brought her outside and bolted the door after her.

• 2 Samuel 13:19

  Tamar took ashes and put them on her head, and the long robe that she had on she tore; she put her hand on her head and went away, crying out as she went.

• 2 Samuel 15:32

  When David came to the summit, where he used to bow down there to Elohim, there to meet him came Hushai the Archite, with his tunic torn and earth on his head.

• Ezra 2:69

  According to their strength they gave to the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand drachmas of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred tunics of priests.

• Nehemiah 7:70

  And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave for the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand drachmas of gold, fifty bowls, five hundred thirty tunics of priests.

• Nehemiah 7:72

  And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven tunics of priests.

• Job 30:18

  With great force my garment is disfigured; like the collar of my tunic it binds me.

• Song of Songs 5:3

  I have taken off my tunic; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I soil them?

• Isaiah 22:21

  and I will clothe him with your tunic, and with your sash I will bind him, and your authority I will give into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitant of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

And 3 more times.