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Translation	Verse	Text
Strong Concordance	Ex 39:23	And there was an hole [06310] in the midst [08432] of the robe [04598], as the hole [06310] of an habergeon [08473], with a band [08193] round about [05439] the hole [06310], that it should not rend [07167].

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Word	American Tract Society - Definition
HABERGEON	Ne 4:16; Job 41:26, a coat of mail; an ancient piece of defensive armor, in the form of a coat or tunic, descending from the neck to the middle of the body, and formed of tough hide, or many quilted linen folds, or of scales of brass overlapping each other like fishes' scales, or of small iron rings or meshes linked into each other, Ex 28:32; 39:23.

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Word	Easton Dictionary - Definition
HABERGEON	an Old English word for breastplate. In Job 41:26 (Heb. shiryah) it is properly a "coat of mail;" the Revised Version has "pointed shaft." In Ex. 28:32, 39:23, it denotes a military garment strongly and thickly woven and covered with mail round the neck and breast. Such linen corselets have been found in Egypt. The word used in these verses is tahra, which is of Egyptian origin. The Revised Version, however, renders it by "coat of mail." (See ARMOUR.)

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Easton Dictionary - Definition

HABERGEON

an Old English word for breastplate. In Job 41:26 (Heb. shiryah) it is properly a "coat of mail;" the Revised Version has "pointed shaft." In Ex. 28:32, 39:23, it denotes a military garment strongly and thickly woven and covered with mail round the neck and breast. Such linen corselets have been found in Egypt. The word used in these verses is tahra, which is of Egyptian origin. The Revised Version, however, renders it by "coat of mail." (See ARMOUR.)

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Word	King James Dictionary - Definition
HABERGEON	A coat of armor.

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Word	King James Dictionary - Definition
REND	To divide; break or tear apart.

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