Breast
שַׁדStrong’s H7699shad
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shad is the Hebrew word usually translated “breasts”, “breasts of” and “breasts your”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:”
Meaning
- Breast, bosom, (female) breastbreast (of woman) · breast (of animal) · breast (of both human and animal)
- Breast, bosom, (female) breastbreast (of woman) · breast (of animal) · breast (of both human and animal)
How it's translated
- breasts 5
- breasts of 3
- breasts your 3
- and breasts your 2
- and breasts 2
- from breast 1
- breasts my 1
- and breasts my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 8
- Isaiah 4
- Ezekiel 4
- Job 2
- Hosea 2
- Genesis 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 3:12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- Psalms 22:9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
- Song of Solomon 1:13A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
- Song of Solomon 4:5Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 7:3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁד shad · breast
1) breast, bosom, (female) breast 1a) breast (of woman) 1b) breast (of animal) 1c) breast (of both human and animal) Also means: shod (שֹׁד "breast" H7699B)
שֹׁד shod · breast
1) breast, bosom, (female) breast 1a) breast (of woman) 1b) breast (of animal) 1c) breast (of both human and animal)
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.