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# חָזֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2373

**breast** — used 13 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/1495/2373/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָזֶה: n.m. breast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2373/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 7:31 breast of animals (Aramaic ܚܰܕܝܳܐ, חַדְיָא)—abs. ח׳ Ex 29:26 + 4 times; cstr. חֲזֵה Ex 29:27 + 5 times; pl. חָזוֹת Lv 9:20, 21—breast, only P, and only of sacrificial animals; always as wave-offering; of ram of installation Ex 29:26, 27 Lv 8:29, of peace-offering Lv 7:30, 30; 9:20, 21, of Nazirite sacrif. Nu 6:20; perquisite of Aaron and his sons Lv 7:31, 34; 10:14, 15, cf. Nu 18:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the breast (6); breast (5); breasts (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 9:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.20/#tree)

וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ אֶת־הַחֲלָבִ֖ים עַל־הֶחָז֑וֹת וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר הַחֲלָבִ֖ים הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה׃

*Word for word:* and they.placed (et) the fat(s) on the breasts and he.made.smoke the fat(s) to the altar

*JPS 1917:* And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he made the fat smoke upon the altar.

[Numbers 18:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.18.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.18.18/#tree)

וּבְשָׂרָ֖ם יִהְיֶה־לָּ֑ךְ כַּחֲזֵ֧ה הַתְּנוּפָ֛ה וּכְשׁ֥וֹק הַיָּמִ֖ין לְךָ֥ יִהְיֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and meat their it.will.belong to you like the.breast of the.wave-offering and like the.thigh of the.right to you it.will.belong

*JPS 1917:* And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2373.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2373/): 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).