Plural or singular?

Question

In Genesis 3 :21, the JPS translation reads " And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them. " In the original Hebrew, is the word for 'skins' singular?

Answer 1

The Hebrew phrase here is כתנות עור, which is literally "tunics of skin," i.e., "tunics made of skin." Here, the skin is the material, but no quantity is specified, although the word עור is grammatically singular. This is one way the construct state can function in Biblical Hebrew.

Answer 2

I just looked it up in the Hebrew biblical text. The Hebrew word "oor" (for "skin") is used as an adjective for katnot, which is plural for garments.

Answer 3

In the original Hebrew bible text the word "skins" is singular.