shiryon · coat of armor

What it means

shiryon (שִׁרְיוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “coat of armor”.

Armor that protects the chest and the back.

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. Armor that protects the soldier's chest.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• coat ×4
• breastplate ×3
• coats of mail ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1

• 1 Samuel 17:5

  A helmet of bronze was on his head, and with a coat of scales he was clothed; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.

• 1 Samuel 17:38

  Saul clothed David with his garment, and put a helmet of bronze on his head, and clothed him with a coat of armor.

• 1 Kings 22:34

  But a man drew the bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. He said to his chariot driver, “Turn your hand and take me out of the camp, for I am wounded.”

• 2 Chronicles 18:33

  But a man drew the bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. He said to the chariot driver, “Turn your hand and take me out of the camp, for I am wounded.”

• 2 Chronicles 26:14

  Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slings.

• Nehemiah 4:16

  It happened from that day on that half of my young men were doing the work, and half of them were holding the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the officials were behind all the house of Judah.

• Job 41:26

  The sword that reaches it does not hold, nor spear, missile or coat of mail.

• Isaiah 59:17

  And he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe.

And 1 more times.