כְּתֹנֶתkᵉthôneth
tunic, principal ordinary garment, of man and woman, worn next the person (Genesis 37:31; Exodus 28:39; Genesis 37:3; Genesis 37:23; 2 Samuel 15:32)
Pronunciation: keth-o'-neth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3801
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 29 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 3:21 And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
- Genesis 37:3 Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe.
- Genesis 37:23 So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing.
- Genesis 37:31 Then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood.
- Genesis 37:32 They sent the beautiful robe to their father with this message: “Look at what we found. Doesn’t this robe belong to your son?”
- Genesis 37:33 Their father recognized it immediately. “Yes,” he said, “it is my son’s robe. A wild animal must have eaten him. Joseph has clearly been torn to pieces!”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).