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Strong's G5509 χιτών (chiton)

Chiton means “clothes” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5509 — cig (“dross”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5509
Language Greek
Linked Usages 44
Books 18

Strong's G5509 Quick Answer

Strong's G5509 χιτών (chiton) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. chiton (khee-tone') n. 1. a tunic or shirt [of foreign origin (H3801)] It has 44 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include coats, coat, clothes, and garment. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
chiton (khee-tone') n. 1. a tunic or shirt [of foreign origin (H3801)]
Usage
44 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
coats, coat, clothes, and garment

Meaning and Definition

chiton (khee-tone') n. 1. a tunic or shirt [of foreign origin (H3801)] KJV: clothes, coat, garment Root(s): H3801

Original Word
χιτών
Transliteration
chiton
Derivation
Root: כְּתוֹנֶת כּוּתּתּוֹנֶת R1: 3801
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5509. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

tunic

Usage: χιτών, ῶνος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for כְּתֹנֶת:] the garment worn next the skin (though two tunics were sometimes worn, see Swete, Mk., 117), a tunic: Mat.10:10, Mrk.6:9 14:63, Luk.3:11 9:3, Ju 23; dieting. from ἱμάτιον (which see), Mat.5:40, Luk.6:29, Jhn.19:23, Act.9:39 (see DCG, i, 338, 340, 499) (AS)

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How Strong's G5509 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chiton, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

coats Matthew 10:10 coat Matthew 5:40 clothes Mark 14:63 garment Jude 1:23

How Strong's G5509 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 29 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5509 (χιτών) appears 36 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5509 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5509 in the New Testament

10 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 5:40 KJV

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

Matthew 10:10 KJV

Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

Mark 6:9 KJV

But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.

Strong's G5509 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

29 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 3:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.

Genesis 37:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colors.

Genesis 37:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his many-colored coat that was upon him.

Strong's G5509 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 14:19 Septuagint / Brenton

When the captains of the Assyrians’ army heard these words, they rent their coats, and their minds were wonderfully troubled, and there was a cry and a very great noise throughout the camp.

2 Maccabees 4:38 Septuagint / Brenton

And being kindled with anger, forthwith he took away Andronicus his purple, and rent off his clothes, and leading him through the whole city unto that very place, where he had committed impiety against Onias, there slew he the cursed murderer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserved.

2 Maccabees 12:40 Septuagint / Brenton

Now under the coats of everyone that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.

Usage Excerpts

First 44 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5509.

Genesis 3:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.
Genesis 37:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colors.
Genesis 37:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his many-colored coat that was upon him.
Genesis 37:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having taken the coat of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and stained the coat with the blood.
Genesis 37:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they sent the coat of many colors; and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found; know if it be thy son’s coat or no.
Genesis 37:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he recognized it, and said, It is my son’s coat, an evil wild beast has devoured him; a wild beast has carried off Joseph.
Exodus 28:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these are the garments which they shall make: the breastplate, and the shoulder piece, and the full-length robe, and the tunic with a fringe, and the tire, and the girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron and his sons to minister to me as priests.
Exodus 28:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
shall be of fine linen; and thou shalt make a tire of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer.
Exodus 28:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
Exodus 29:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having taken the garments, thou shalt put on Aaron thy brother both the full-length robe and the ephod and the oracle; and thou shalt join for him the oracle to the ephod.
Exodus 29:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou shalt bring his sons, and put garments on them.
Exodus 35:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
Exodus 36:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they made vestments of fine linen, a woven work, for Aaron and his sons,
Exodus 40:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt bring up his sons, and shalt put garments on them.
Leviticus 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall put on the linen tunic, and he shall put the linen drawers on his body; and shall take away that which has been thoroughly burned, which the fire shall have consumed, even the whole burnt offering from the altar, and he shall put it near the altar.
Leviticus 8:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the tunic, and put on him the ephod;
Leviticus 8:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses brought the sons of Aaron near, and put on them coats and girded them with girdles, and put on them bonnets, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Leviticus 10:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they came near and took them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses said.
Leviticus 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall put on the consecrated linen tunic, and he shall have on his flesh the linen drawers, and shall gird himself with a linen girdle, and shall put on the linen cap, they are holy garments; and he shall bathe all his body in water, and shall put them on.
2 Kingdoms 13:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she had on her a variegated robe, for so were the king’s daughters that were virgins attired in their apparel: and his servant led her forth, and shut the door after her.
2 Kingdoms 13:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Tamar took ashes, and put them on her head; and she rent the variegated garment that was upon her: and she laid her hands on her head, and went crying continually.
2 Kingdoms 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David came as far as Ros, where he worshiped God: and behold, Hushai the chief friend of David came out to meet him, having rent his garment, and earth was upon his head.
3 Kingdoms 20:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And because of the word, Ahab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and rent his garment, and girded sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Naboth the Jezreelite, and went his way.
Job 30:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: It has compassed me as the collar of my coat.
Song of Solomon 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
Isaiah 3:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:
Isaiah 3:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle, thou shalt gird thyself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, thou shalt have baldness on account of thy works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, thou shalt gird thyself with sackcloth.
Isaiah 36:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the military scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Hezekiah, having their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 61:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a miter on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.
Matthew 5:40 New Testament, KJV
And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
Matthew 10:10 New Testament, KJV
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Mark 6:9 New Testament, KJV
But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.
Mark 14:63 New Testament, KJV
Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
Luke 3:11 New Testament, KJV
He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
Luke 6:29 New Testament, KJV
And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.
Luke 9:3 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
John 19:23 New Testament, KJV
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
Acts 9:39 New Testament, KJV
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
Jude 1:23 New Testament, KJV
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Judith 14:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When the captains of the Assyrians’ army heard these words, they rent their coats, and their minds were wonderfully troubled, and there was a cry and a very great noise throughout the camp.
2 Maccabees 4:38 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And being kindled with anger, forthwith he took away Andronicus his purple, and rent off his clothes, and leading him through the whole city unto that very place, where he had committed impiety against Onias, there slew he the cursed murderer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserved.
2 Maccabees 12:40 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now under the coats of everyone that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.
4 Maccabees 9:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the eldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5509, grouped by book.

Genesis 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5509 FAQ

What does chiton (χιτών) mean?

Chiton (Strong's G5509) is a Greek word most simply glossed "clothes". chiton (khee-tone') n. 1. a tunic or shirt [of foreign origin (H3801)]

How many times is chiton (χιτών) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 44 linked usages for Strong's G5509 across 18 books.

Where can I study chiton (χιτών) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5509 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate chiton (χιτών)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as coats, coat, clothes, and garment. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5509 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 29 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5509, with linked reader references where each row is available.