Strong's Concordance

thórax: a breastplate

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θώραξ, ακός, ὁ

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Noun, Masculinethórax(tho'-rax)a breastplatea breast-plate, corslet, cuirass.

2382 thṓraks (the root of the English term, "thorax") – properly, a breastplate ("coat of mail") which protected the chest and extended down to the hips; (figuratively) what protects the heart (our capacity of moral preference).

2382 /thṓraks ("breastplate of faith-righteousness") protects the heart and its emotions (desires) as they bear on our decisions (resolutions, sympathies, etc.). See 4102 /pistis ("the Lord's inbirthed persuasion").

Eph 6:14 refers to "the breastplate of righteousness" (ton thōraka tēs dikaiosynēs) and 1 Thes 5:8 to "the breastplate (2382 /thṓraks) of faith." This indicates righteousness results from obeying the faith God births in the heart (this is confirmed in texts like Js 2:14-26).

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of uncertain origina breastplatebreastplate (2), breastplates (3).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 2382: θώραξ

θώραξ

θώρακος

ὁ

1. the breast, the part of the body from the neck to the navel, where the ribs end (Aristotle, hist. an. 1, 7 (cf. 8, p. 491a, 28); Euripides, Plato, others): Revelation 9:9 (some refer this to the next entry).