BRIGANDINE.The brigand was originally simply a light-armed irregular foot soldier, and the coat of mail which he wore was called a brigandine. The word is used in Jer_46:4; Jer_51:3 (RV [Note: Revised Version.] coat of mail). See Armour.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Jer_46:4; Jer_55:3; sirion, a coat of mail, or scale armor, worn by the light troops called brigands.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Brigandine. Jer_46:4. Elsewhere "habergeon," or "coat of mail." See Arms.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
brig?an-dēn. See ARMS (Defensive, 5); COAT OF MAIL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Brigandine
is an old English word, signifying a coat of scale armor, but now obsolete in this sense; used in Jer_46:4; Jer_51:3, for the Heb. סַרְיוֹן, siryon' (occurring only in these passages), doubtless the same as the שַׁרְיוֹן, shiryon', a "coat of mail" (1Sa_17:5; 1Sa_17:38) or corselet. SEE BREASTPLATE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.