Breast
דַּדStrong’s H1717dad
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dad is the Hebrew word usually translated “nipples of”, “breasts her” and “nipples your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.”
Meaning
- Breast, nipple, teat
How it's translated
- nipples of 2
- breasts her 1
- nipples your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 23:3And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
- Ezekiel 23:8Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
- Ezekiel 23:21Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Hebrew dictionary
דַּד dad · breast
breast, nipple, teat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breast” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREAST, noun
brest.
- The soft, protuberant body, adhering to the thorax, which, in females, furnishes milk for infants.“His breasts are full of milk” Job 21:24
- The fore part of the thorax, or the fore part of the human body between the neck and the belly.
- The part of a breast which answers to the breast in man.
- Figuratively, the heart; the conscience; the disposition of the mind; the affections; the seat of the affections and passions.
All definitions and other forms of “breast”
- Formerly, the power of singing.
BREAST, verb transitive
brest. To meet in front; to oppose breast to breast
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.