1 Samuel 17:5
And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
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1 Samuel 17:38
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
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קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת
qasqeseth · kas-keh'-seth
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
a scale (of a fish); hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal)
Strong's KJV usage: mail, scale.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:5Strong's last: 1 Samuel 17:5
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shiryôwn · shir-yone'
1 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 17:38Strong's last: 1 Samuel 17:38
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H7193
And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
H8302
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
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MAIL, noun [Latin macula.]
1. A coat of steel net-work, formerly worn for defending the body against swords, poniards, etc. The mail was of two sorts, chain and plate mail; the former consisting of iron rings, each having four others inserted into it; the latter consisting of a number of small lamins of metal, laid over one another like the scales of a fish, and sewed down to a strong linen or leathern jacket.
2. Armor; that which defends the body.
We strip the lobster of his scarlet mail
We read also of shirts of mail and gloves of mail
3. In ships, a square machine composed of rings interwoven, like net-work, used for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
4. A rent. Also, a spot.
MAIL, noun A bag for the conveyance of letters and papers, particularly letters conveyed from one post office to another, under public authority.
MAIL, verb transitive To put on a coat of mail or armor; to arm defensively.
1. To inclose in a wrapper and direct to a post office. We say, letters were mailed for Philadelphia.
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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