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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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
כּוֹבַעkôwbaʻ · ko'-bah
H3553 · Hebrew
H3553 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a helmet (as arched)
- Derivation
- from an unused root meaning to be high or rounded;
- KJV renderings
- helmet. Compare H6959 (קוֹבַע).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- כ֤וֹבַע — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 6 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Chronicles 26:14Isaiah 59:17Jeremiah 46:4Ezekiel 27:10Ezekiel 38:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כּוֹבַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.