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# דַּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1717

**breast** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

breast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1717/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּד: n.m. breast teat, nipple [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1717/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 5:19 breast, better teat, nipple (τιτθοί Aq Pr 5:19 Symm Ez 23:3, 21; NH & Aramaic דַּד; primit. caressing word; according to Fl in NHWBi. 439)—Du cstr. דַּדֵּי Ez 23:3, 8 (both del. 𝔊 𝔖 Co); sf. דַּדַּיִךְ Ez 23:21 (read בתוליך 𝔖 Co); דַּדֶּיהָ Pr 5:19;—of breasts of woman Pr 5:19 (Hi Bi read דֹּדֶיהָ her love cf. 7:18); of Samaria & Jerusalem under fig. of young women Ez 23:3 (דַּדֵּי בְּתוּלֵיהֶן) cf. v 8; דַּדַּיִךְ v 21; but prob. del. ד׳ in Ez cf. supr. & GeiUrschrift 397.—Vid. also שַׁד sub שׁדה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the nipples (2); breasts (1); nipples (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.21/#tree)

וַֽתִּפְקְדִ֔י אֵ֖ת זִמַּ֣ת נְעוּרָ֑יִךְ בַּעְשׂ֤וֹת מִמִּצְרַ֙יִם֙ דַּדַּ֔יִךְ לְמַ֖עַן שְׁדֵ֥י נְעוּרָֽיִךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* and you.sought (et) the.licentiousness your.youth(s) your when squeezed since Egypt nipples your on.account.of the.breasts your.youth(s) your

*JPS 1917:* Thus thou didst call to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, when they from Egypt bruised thy breasts for the bosom of thy youth.

[Proverbs 5:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.19/#tree)

אַיֶּ֥לֶת אֲהָבִ֗ים וְֽיַעֲלַ֫ת־חֵ֥ן דַּ֭דֶּיהָ יְרַוֻּ֣ךָ בְכָל־עֵ֑ת בְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּ תִּשְׁגֶּ֥ה תָמִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* a.doe of.loves and a.mountain.goat of.grace breasts her may they.satisfy.you at every time by love her may.you.be.intoxicated continually

*JPS 1917:* A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1717.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1717/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).