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an old English word for breastplate, appears in the Auth.Vers. as the rendering of two Heb. terms: ùַׁøְéָä , shir.yah'(Job_41:26, where it is named by zeugma with offensive weapons), or ùַׁøְéåֹï , shiryon'(2Ch_26:14; Neh_4:16), a coat of mail (as rendered in 1Sa_17:5; 1Sa_17:38); and úִּçֲøָà , tachara' (Exo_28:32; Exo_39:23), a military garment, properly of linen strongly and thickly woven, and furnished around the neck and breast with a mailed covering (see Herod. 2, 182; 3:47; and comp. the ëéíïèώñçî of Homer, II. 2, 529, 830). (See Smith's Dict. of Class. Antiq. s.v. Lorica.) SEE ARMOR.