Lexical Summary shiryon or shiryan: body armor Original Word: שִׁרְיוֹןTransliteration: 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 שִׁרְיָה noun feminine a weapon, perhaps lance, javelin; — ׳שׁ Job 41:18 (+ מַסָּע חֲנִית, חֶרֶב,), — yet ᵐ5 θώρακα, ᵑ7 thorax, 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 שִׁרְיוֺן 1 Samuel 17:5, 38; שִׁרְיָ֑ן (Ges§ 29u) 1 Kings 22:34 2 Chronicles 18:33, שִׁרְיָ֔ן Isaiah 59:17; plural שִׁרְיֹנִים Nehemiah 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 לבשׁ 1 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. |
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