Breastplate
θώραξStrong’s G2382thōrax
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Thōrax is the Greek word usually translated “breastplates” and “breastplate”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;”
Meaning
Usually translated “breastplates” and “breastplate”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- breastplates 3
- breastplate 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 2
- Ephesians 1
- 1 Thessalonians 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Thessalonians 5:8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
- Revelation 9:9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
- Revelation 9:17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
Greek dictionary
θώραξ thōrax · breastplate
θώραξ, -ακσς, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for שִׁרְיוֹן and cogn. forms ;] a breastplate: Rev.9:9, 17; θ. τ. δικαιοσύνης, Eph.6:14 (cf. Isa.59:17, Wis.5:18-19); θ. πίστεως, 1Th.5:8.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breastplate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREAST'PLATE, noun
[breast and plate.]
- Armor for the breast.
- A strap that runs across a horse's breast.
- In Jewish antiquity, a part of the vestment of the high priest, consisting of a folded piece of the rich embroidered stuff of which the ephod was made.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.