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Leviticus 16:4
“He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3801 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a shirt
- Derivation
- or כֻּתֹּנֶת; from an unused root meaning to cover (compare H3802 (כָּתֵף));
- KJV renderings
- coat, garment, robe.
- Grammar
- כְּתֹֽנֶת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 29 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:21Genesis 37:3Genesis 37:23Genesis 37:23Genesis 37:31
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 כְּתֹנֶת 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.