Breastpiece
חֹ֫שֶׁןStrong’s H2833choshen (cho-shen)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choshen is the Hebrew word usually translated “breastpiece”, “breastpiece of” and “on breastpiece of”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.”
Meaning
- Breastplate, breastpiecesacred pouch of the high priest designed to hold the Urim and Thummim
How it's translated
- the breastpiece 18
- and for the breastpiece 3
- a breastpiece 1
- a breastpiece of 1
- on breastpiece of 1
- breastpiece of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 20
- Leviticus 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:4And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
- Exodus 28:15And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
- Exodus 28:22And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
- Exodus 28:23And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
- Exodus 28:24And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
- Exodus 28:26And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫שֶׁן choshen · breastpiece
1) breastplate, breastpiece 1a) sacred pouch of the high priest designed to hold the Urim and Thummim
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.