Strong’s H4370 · Hebrew

מִכְנָס
miknâç
mik-nawce'

Definition

(only in dual) drawers (from concealing the private parts)

Etymology

from H3647 (כָּמַס) in the sense of hiding;

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • breeches

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.