Habergeon

Habergeon [ARMS; ARMOR]

Neh 4:16 ; Job 41:26, a coat of mail; an ancient piece of defensive armor, in the form of a coat or tunic, descending from the neck to the middle of the body, and formed of tough hide, or many quilted linen folds, or of scales of brass overlapping each other like fishes’ scales, or of small iron rings or meshes linked into each other, Exo 28:32 ; 39:23.\par

Habergeon. A coat of mail covering the neck and breast. See Arms.

Coat of mail, covering the neck and chest. Exo 28:32; "as the hole of an habergeon," namely, for the head and neck to go through; the sacerdotal meeil or robe of the ephod resembling it in form, but of linen. Job 41:26, margin, "breast-plate."

See ARMOUR.

HABERGEON (Exo 28:32; Exo 39:23 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ).—An obsolete term replaced in RV [Note: Revised Version.] by the modern ‘coat of mail.’ Cf. Job 41:26 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘pointed shaft,’ and see Armour, 2 (c).

A. R. S. Kennedy.

hab´ẽr-jun, ha-bûr´jun, the King James Version (תּחרא, taḥărā’): In the Revised Version (British and American), Exo 28:32; Exo 39:23, etc., “coat of mail”; in Job 41:26, “pointed shaft,” margin “coat of mail.” See ARMS, ARMOR.