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מִצְחָה

mits.chah

greave

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Strong’s H4697Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

leg armor of1

In the text

1 Samuel 17:6וּמִצְחַת
and he had armor of bronze on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מִצְחָה] n.f. greave(s);—only sg. cstr. 1 S 17:6

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.