חֹ֫שֶׁן
breastplate
‘breastplate’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2833 appears in the Book of Leviticus — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun חשן centers on the idea of “breastplate.” Exodus dominates its distribution — 20 of 21 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 21 verses — uncommon. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. Its English rendering has broadened — “breastplate” classically, “breastpiece” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Dig into 21-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2833 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,282
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,282 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 21 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 21 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Breastplate 25×
- American Standard Version: Breastplate 24×
- Berean Standard Bible: Breastpiece 22×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Breastpiece 20×, Breastpiece of 3×, Breastplate 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2833 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2833 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2833 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2833 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- breastplate, breastpiece
- sacred pouch of the high priest designed to hold the Urim and Thummim
Word origin
n.m. the breast-piece or sacred pouch, containing the אורים ותמים, worn on the breast of the high priest when he ministered in the Holy Place to bring the tribes for memorial before. י׳. It was made of the same material as the ephod (v. אֵפוֹד), a span square; set in front with twelve jewels in four rows, engraved with the names of the twelve tribes. It was firmly fastened to the shoulders of the ephod by gold chains passing through gold rings, and to the lower part of the ephod just above the girdle by a blue ribbon passing through other gold rings. It was חשֶׁן (ה)מִשְׁפָּט (Ex 28:15, 29, 30) pouch of judgment, because of the decision given by the אוּרִים וְתֻמִּים. The name occurs only in P, Ex 25:7; 28:4, 15, 22, 23(×2), 24, 26, 28(×2), 29, 30; 29:5; 35:9, 27; 39:8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21(×2) Lv 8:8(×2).—Vid. NowArch. ii. 119.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to contain or sparkle
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חוֹשֶׁן
- breast-plate. Zeb. 88ᵇ ח׳ מכפר וכ׳ the Highpriest’s breast-plate brings atonement for wrong judgments. Sabb. 139ᵃ זכה לח׳ המשפט וכ׳ was privileged to wear the breast-plate of judgment upon his heart. Yoma 72ᵃ המזיח ח׳ מעל וכ׳ he who loosens the breast-plate from the Ephod; a. fr.
חשֶׁן
- , v. חוֹשֶׁן
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H2833 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/חֹ֑שֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:26 | 5 |
| הַ/חֹ֔שֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:23 | 4 |
| הַ/חֹֽשֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:23 | 4 |
| הַ/חֹ֛שֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:22 | 3 |
| וְ/לַ/חֹֽשֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 25:7 | 3 |
| חֹ֤שֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:4 | 2 |
| בְּ/חֹ֧שֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 28:29 | 1 |
| הַ/חֹ֡שֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 39:21 | 1 |
| הַ֠/חֹשֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:28 | 1 |
| חֹ֣שֶׁן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 28:30 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 17 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 21 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
