STRONGS NUMBER H3801


Word Summary
kethoneth or kuttoneth: a tunic
Original Word: כְּתֹנֶת
Transliteration: kethoneth or kuttoneth
Phonetic Spelling: (keth-o'-neth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a tunic
Meaning: a shirt
Strong's Concordance
coat, garment, robe

Or kuttoneth {koot-to'-neth}; from an unused root meaning to cover (compare katheph); a shirt -- coat, garment, robe.

see HEBREW katheph

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3801. kethoneth

or kuttoneth כְּתֹ֫נֶת כֻּתֹּ֫נֶת,‎ noun feminine tunic (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כִּתּוּנָא‎. etc., etc.; Ethiopic tunic, linen; compare also √ above); — absolute כֻּתֹּנֶת‎ Genesis 37:31 2t.; כְּתֹנֶת‎ Exodus 28:39; construct כְּתֹנֶת‎ Genesis 37:3 9t.; suffix כֻּתָּנְתּוֺ‎ 37:23; 2 Samuel 15:32, כֻּתָּנְתֶּ֑ךָ‎ Isaiah 22:21, כֻּתָּנְתִּי‎ Job 30:18; Song of Solomon 5:3; plural absolute כֻּתֳּנֹת‎ Exodus 28:40 3t., הַכָּתְנֹת‎ 39:27; construct כָּתְנוֺת‎ Genesis 3:21 2t., כָּתְנֹת‎ Ezra 2:69; suffix כֻּתֳּנֹתָם‎ Leviticus 10:5; — tunic, principal ordinary garment (see BenzArchaeology 98 f. NowArchaeology i, 121, 193) of man and woman, worn next the person, עוֺר כָּתְנֹת‎ Genesis 3:21 tunics of skin; of man 2 Samuel 15:32; כ ׳מִּי‎ Job 30:18 mouth of any tunic (i.e. its collar); מַּסִּים׳כ‎ Genesis 37:3, 23, 32 i.e. tunic with long skirts and sleeves (see מַּס‎), compare 37:23; 37:31; 37:31; 37:32; 37:33; of woman Song of Solomon 5:3 (put off at night); ׳כ מַּסִּים‎ 2 Samuel 13:18-19, (of king's daughter; rent, as sign of grief, compare also 15:32, and see קרע‎). Specifically of priest's tunic Exodus 28:4, 39 (embroidered, see תַּשְׁבֵּץ שׁבץ,‎), 28:40; 29:5, 8; 39:27 (made of שֵׁשׁ‎, q. v.), 40:14; Leviticus 8:7, 13; 10:5; קֹדֶשׁ׳כּ בַּֿד‎ 16:4 a holy linen tunic, of high priest; כֹּֿהֲנִים׳כ‎ Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:69, 71 (van d. H. 7:70; 7:72); of Shebna's official tunic Isaiah 22:21.

כתף‎ (√ of following; meaning unknown).