Breast
חֲדִיStrong’s H2373chadi (cha-di)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chadi is the Hebrew word usually translated “breast”, “breast of” and “breasts”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.”
Meaning
- Breast, chest
How it's translated
- the breast 5
- breast of 4
- the breasts 2
- and breast of 1
- like breast of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 8
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 2
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:27And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
- Leviticus 7:30His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
- Leviticus 7:31And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
- Leviticus 7:34For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 8:29And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses’ part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 9:20And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
Hebrew dictionary
חֲדִי chadi · breast
breast, chest Aramaic of cha.zeh (חָזֶה "breast" H2373)
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.