Breastplate
תַּחְרָאStrong’s H8473tachara (ta-cha-ra)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tachara is the Hebrew word usually translated “collar”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.”
Meaning
- Corselet
How it's translated
- a collar 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
תַּחְרָא tachara · breastplate
corselet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.