Greek noun (masculine) · G2382
θώραξ
thoraxtho'-rax
breastplate
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: thṓrax
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2382is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2382
the chest ("thorax"), i.e. (by implication) a corslet
The King James renders it: breast-plate.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
thorax is rendered "breastplate". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ephesians 6:14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
Ephesians 6:14θώρακα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- breastplates3
- breastplate2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- θώρακας3
- θώρακα2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural3N-APM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
Ephesians
one use
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
- θώρακαthorakanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: breastplate
1 Thessalonians
one use
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
- θώρακαthorakanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: breastplate
Revelation
three uses
They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
- θώρακαςthorakasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: breastplates
- θώρακαςthorakasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: breastplates
Now the horses and riders in my vision looked like this: The riders had breastplates the colors of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and sulfur.
- θώρακαςthorakasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: breastplates
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.