שִׁרְיוֹן“armor”The word שִׁרְיוֹן (shiryon) is the ordinary Hebrew name for a coat of scale armor: a shirt of leather or cloth sewn with rows of small overlapping metal plates, the heavy protective coat a soldier pulled on for battle. It is the form used everywhere outside the book of Jeremiah, covering Goliath's enormous bronze coat, the armor Saul lends David, the gap where an arrow kills Ahab, the coats Uzziah stockpiles, the gear Nehemiah's guards carry, and the righteousness the Lord puts on like a breastplate. The spelling סִרְיֹן (siryon) is the same word with its first sound shifted, and means exactly the same thing.