STRONGS NUMBER H8302


Word Summary
shiryon or shiryan: body armor
Original Word: שִׁרְיוֹן
Transliteration: shiryon or shiryan
Phonetic Spelling: (shir-yone')
Part of Speech: Noun
Short Definition: body armor
Meaning: body armor
Strong's Concordance
breastplate, coat of mail, habergeon, harness

Or shiryon {shir-yone'}; and shiryan {shir- yawn'}; also (feminine) shiryah {shir-yaw'}; and shiryonah {shir-yo-naw'}; from sharah in the original sense of turning; a corslet (as if twisted) -- breastplate, coat of mail, habergeon, harness. See ciyron.

see HEBREW sharah

see HEBREW ciyron

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8302. shiryon

or shiryan שִׁרְיָהnoun feminine a weapon, perhaps lance, javelin; — ׳שׁJob 41:18 (+ מַסָּע חֲנִית, חֶרֶב,‎), — yet ᵐ5θώρακα, ᵑ7thorax, i.e. שִׁרְיוֺן‎.

IV. שׁרה‎ (√ of following; meaning dubious; compare Assyrian siriyâm, body-armour (Inscription of Sennacherib), Aramaic id.; Ecclus 43:20 id.; also Egyptian ¾u-ïra-na, tà-ra-y-na, WMMAs.u.Eur.102).

שִׁרְיָ֑ן שִׁרְיוֺן,noun [masculine] body-armour; — absolute שִׁרְיוֺן1 Samuel 17:5, 38; שִׁרְיָ֑ן‎ (Ges§ 29u) 1 Kings 22:34 2 Chronicles 18:33, שִׁרְיָ֔ןIsaiah 59:17; plural שִׁרְיֹנִיםNehemiah 4:10, שִׁרְיֹנוֺת2 Chronicles 26:14; — body-armour, perhaps more exactly breast-armour, Nehemiah 4:10; with appendages (הַדְּבָקִים‎) 1 Kings 22:34 2 Chronicles 18:33; with verb לבשׁ1 Samuel 17:5, made of scale-like plates (קַשְׂקֵשִּׂים‎) of bronze 17:5, named with helmet here, so 17:38; 2 Chronicles 26:14 and (figurative) Isaiah 59:17. — ׳שׂ‎ proper name see שׂריון‎.