noun · masculine
chitōnos
Strong’sG5509
a tunic, garment, undergarment
stem chitōn-11 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
χιτών, ῶνος, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for כְּתֹנֶת:]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5509 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhee-tone'
a tunic or shirt
Fromof foreign origin ();
King Jamesclothes, coat, garment.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
in Ionic dialectProse κῐθών, ῶνος, ὁ (also probably in Refs, Doric dialect κῐτών (which see):— garment worn next the skin, tunic.
I in early times, only of a man's tunic (the woman's being πέπλος, Refs 8th c.BC+: sometimes with a girdle, Refs 8th c.BC+; μαλακός, ἐΰννητος, Refs 8th c.BC+
I.2 later worn also by women, ἅμα κιθῶνι ἐκδυομένῳ συνεκδύεται καὶ τὴν αἰδῶ γυνή Refs 5th c.BC+; the Ionian sleeved χ. was distinguished fr the Dorian, fastened with περόναι, μετέβαλον [αἱ τῶν Ἀθηναίων γυναῖκες] ἐς τὸν λίνεον κ. ἵνα δὴ περόνῃσι μὴ χρέωνται Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. ποδήρης, ὀρθοστάδιος, στατός (see entry); κιθὼν ποδηνεκής, worn by Babylonians, Refs 5th c.BC+; κιθῶνες λίνεοι περὶ τὰ σκέλεα θυσανωτοί, worn by Egyptians, Refs; κιθῶνες εἰρίνεοι, worn by Cilicians, Refs 5th c.BC+
II coat of mail, probably of leather covered with scales or rings, στρεπτὸς χ. Refs 8th c.BC+; κιθῶνες χειριδωτοὶ λεπίδος σιδηρέης coats of iron scales with sleeves, Refs 5th c.BC+
III part of a shoe that coats the foot, upper, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV metaphorically, any coat, case, or covering, λάϊνος χιτών (see. λάϊνος) τειχέων κιθῶνες, i. e. walls, Refs 5th c.BC+; in Anatomy, coat, membrane, τὸν ἀμφὶ τὴν ὄψιν χ. Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. ὑμενώδης, ἀραχνιώδης, Refs; of foetal membranes, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τριγλοφόροι χιτῶνες, of fishing-nets, Refs 1st c.BC+; χιτῶνες ἀραχνίων spiders' webs, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, pods or coats of seeds, bulbous roots, etc., Refs 4th c.BC+
IV.2 vesture, [φύσις] σαρκῶν ἀλλογνῶτι περιστέλλουσα (i.e. ψυχάς) χιτῶνι Refs 5th c.BC+ of the soul, Refs 5th c.AD+. (Accad. kitinnu 'linen garment', Hebrew kètōnet 'tunic'; χεθὼν γὰρ τὸ λίνον ἡμεῖς καλοῦμεν Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chitōnos1×χιτὼν | chitōnois |
| object accusative | chitōnon4×χιτῶνα | chitōnoin6×χιτῶνας |
| direct address vocative | chitōnor | chitōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | chitōnou | chitōnoiu |
| to, for dative | chitōno | chitōnoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
chitōno is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
chitōnos“tunic”subjectnominative singular1×
John 19:23“tunic”… kai ton chitōnon. ate de tos chitōnos arafos, ek teiu anōthen hufantos dia …… with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
chitōnon“tunic”objectaccusative singular4×
Matthew 5:40… to thelarōnto si krinira kai ton chitōnon su labara, afiēkasar auto kai tem …… to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as …
Luke 6:29… airarōntou su tem himatiem kai ton chitōnon mē kōluaseia.… your cloak, do not withhold your tunic as well.
John 19:23… mereim, hekasto stratiōto merem, kai ton chitōnon. ate de tos chitōnos arafos, ek …… one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in …
Jude 1:23“garment”… kai ton apo tau sarkau spilorēnton chitōnon.… fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
chitōnoin“tunics”objectaccusative plural6×
Matthew 10:10“tunics”mē pēran eis hodan mēde duo chitōnoin mēde hupodēmeim mēde rabdan; axios gar …Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his …
Mark 6:9“tunics”… hupodorēntoin sandalieim, kai mē endueveia duo chitōnoin.and to wear sandals, but not a second …
Mark 14:63tos de archierevos diarrēgarantos toin chitōnoin autou legatō; Tinem ēti chreian echanō …… this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “Why do we need …
Luke 3:11… de legate autoi; Tos echarōntos duo chitōnoin metadōatar to mē echarōnto, kai tos …John replied, “Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has …
Luke 9:3“tunics”… arton mēte arguriem, mēte ana duo chitōnoin echarō.… bag, no bread, no money, no second …
Acts 9:39… pantais tais chērais klaiarōntais kai epideikorōntais chitōnoin kai himatieim hoseim poiate meta autaiu …… him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had …