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# שַׁד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7699

**breast** — used 24 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/1513/7699/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁד²: n.m. breast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7699/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ho 9:14 female breast;—abs. שָׁ֑ד La 4:3; elsewhere du. שָׁדַיִם Ho 9:14 +, cstr. שְׁדֵי Ez 23:21 +, sf. שָׁדַי Ct 1:13; 8:10, שָׁדַיִךְ 4:5 +, etc.;—breast: of woman Ho 2:4; Ez 16:7; 23:3, 21 (שְׁדֵי נְעוּרָ֑יִךְ, ‖ דַּדַּיִךְ), v 34 (\> del. 𝔊 Codd. Co;—all these of personif. people), Ct 1:13; 4:5; 7:4, 8, 9; 8:8, 10; of mother ψ 22:10, c. יָנַק suck Ct 8:1; Jb 3:12; Jo 2:16; Ho 9:14 (v. \[צָמַק\]); עֲתִיקֵ׳ מִשּׁ׳ Is 28:9 i.e. those already weaned, mature (‖ גְּמוּלֵי מֵחָלָב).—Is 32:12 v. \[ספד\]. of animal La 4:3. both human and animal, בִּרְכוֹת שׁ׳ וָרָ֑חַם Gn 49:25 (poem in J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: breasts (14); breast (2); of breasts (2).

## In the verses

[Job 24:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.9/#tree)

יִ֭גְזְלוּ מִשֹּׁ֣ד יָת֑וֹם וְֽעַל־עָנִ֥י יַחְבֹּֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* people.tear.away from.\[the\] breast a.fatherless.one and on \[the\].poor they.take.pledges

*JPS 1917:* There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor;

[Song of Songs 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.4/#tree)

שְׁנֵ֥י שָׁדַ֛יִךְ כִּשְׁנֵ֥י עֳפָרִ֖ים תָּאֳמֵ֥י צְבִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.two breasts your \[are\].like two fawns twins of.a.gazelle

*JPS 1917:* Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7699.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7699/): 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).