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תַּחְרָא

corselet

H8473 Strong's Hebrew
tachărâʼ Transliteration
/takh-ar-aw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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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.

תחרא (tachărâʼ) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “corselet.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Exodus dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Debuting at Exodus 28:32, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include חרה, חרון and חרי. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
habergeon
Modern gloss
corselet
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H8473 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Exodus 28:32
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Exodus 28:32.
Exodus 39:23
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Exodus 39:23.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 2 · 100%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 2 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: Habergeon 2×
  • American Standard Version: Hole of a coat 1×, Were the hole of a coat of mail 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Garment 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Garment 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H8473 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Habergeon” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H8473 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hole of a coat” 1×
  • “Were the hole of a coat of mail” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H8473 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Garment” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H8473 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Garment” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 1 sense 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.

  1. corselet

Word origin

n.[m.] prob. (linen) corselet (𝔗Onk שריון);—abs. ת׳ Ex 28:32, ‖ 39:23 (P), in sim.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from חרה (chârâh) (H2734) — to be angry.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TWOT: 2502


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H8473 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
תַחְרָ֑א Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 39:23 1
תַחְרָ֛א Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 28:32 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8473, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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