Tunic
כֻּתֹּ֫נֶתStrong’s H3801ketonet (ke-to-net)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ketonet is the Hebrew word usually translated “long garment of”, “tunics” and “tunic”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
Meaning
- Tunic, under-garmenta long shirt-like garment usually of linen
How it's translated
- long garment of 5
- tunics 4
- the tunic 3
- garments of 2
- a long garment of 2
- and tunics of 2
- tunic my 2
- long garment his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 7
- Genesis 6
- Leviticus 4
- 2 Samuel 3
- Nehemiah 2
- Ezra 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
- Genesis 37:23And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;
- Genesis 37:31And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
- Genesis 37:32And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.
- Genesis 37:33And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
כֻּתֹּ֫נֶת ketonet · tunic
1) tunic, under-garment 1a) a long shirt-like garment usually of linen
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tunic” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TU'NIC, noun
[Latin tunica. See Town and Tun.]
- A kind of waistcoat or under garment worn by men in ancient Rome and the east.
- Among the religious, a woolen shirt or under garment.
- In anatomy, a membrane that covers or composes some part or organ; as the tunics or coats of the eye; the tunics of the stomach, or the membranous and muscular layers which compose it.
- A natural covering; an integument; as the tunic of a seed.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.