Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
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Coat
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John 21:7
Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
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כְּתֹנֶת
kᵉthôneth · keth-o'-neth
16 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
a shirt
Strong's KJV usage: coat, garment, robe.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 37:3Strong's last: Song of Solomon 5:3
Open full H3801 profile →χιτών
chitṓn · khee-tone'
4 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a tunic or shirt
Strong's KJV usage: :--clothes, coat, garment.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:40Strong's last: John 19:23
Open full G5509 profile →שִׁרְיוֹן
shiryôwn · shir-yone'
2 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a corslet (as if twisted)
Strong's KJV usage: breastplate, coat of mail, habergeon, harness. See 5630.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:5Strong's last: 1 Samuel 17:5
Open full H8302 profile →ἐπενδύτης
ependýtēs · ep-en-doo'-tace
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a wrapper, i.e. outer garment
Strong's KJV usage: :--fisher's coat.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 21:7Strong's last: John 21:7
Open full G1903 profile →מְעִיל
mᵉʻîyl · meh-eel'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
a robe (i.e. upper and outer garment)
Strong's KJV usage: cloke, coat, mantle, robe.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 2:19Strong's last: 1 Samuel 2:19
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G5509
And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
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coat
COAT, noun
1. An upper garment, of whatever material it may be made. The word is, in modern times, generally applied to the garment worn by men next over the vest.
God made coats of skin and clothed them. Genesis 3:21.
Jacob made Joseph a coat of many colors. Genesis 3:217.
He shall put on the holy linen coat Leviticus 16:4.
Goliath was armed with a coat of mail. 1 Samuel 17:5.
2. A petticoat; a garment worn by infants or young children.
3. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office.
Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
So we say, men of his cloth.
4. External covering, as the fur or hair of a beast, the skin of serpents, the wool of sheep, etc.
5. A tunic of the eye; a membrane that serves as a cover; a tegument.
6. The division or layer of a bulbous root; as the coats of an onion.
7. A cover; a layer of any substance covering another; as a coat of tar, pitch or varnish; a coat of canvas round a mast; a coat of tin-foil.
8. That on which ensigns armorial are portrayed; usually called a coat of arms. Anciently knights wore a habit over their arms, reaching as low as the navel, open at the sides, with short sleeves, on which were the armories of the knights, embroidered in gold and silver, and enameled with beaten tin of various colors. This habit was diversified with bands and fillets of several colors, placed alternately, and called devises, as being divided and composed of several pieces sewed together. The representation of these is still called a coat of arms.
9. A coat of mail is a piece of armor, in form of a shirt, consisting of a net-work of iron rings.
10. A card; a coat-card is one on which a king, queen or knave is painted.
COAT, verb transitive
1. To cover or spread over with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a retort; to coat a ceiling; to coat a vial.
2. To cover with cloth or canvas; as, to coat a mast or a pump.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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