Topic
Mail, Coat of
1 passage cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- 1 Samuel 17:5Easton
And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
“a corselet of scales,” a cuirass formed of pieces of metal overlapping each other, like fish-scales (1 Sam. 17:5); also (38) a corselet or garment thus encased.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.