שַׁדshad

שַׁד: female breast

Pronunciation: shad · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7699

Meanings

1. of woman (Hosea 2:4; Ezekiel 16:7; Ezekiel 23:3)

2. of animal (Lamentations 4:3)

3. both human and animal (Genesis 49:25)

שֹׁד: id. (Job 24:9; Isaiah 60:16; Isaiah 66:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 24 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 49:25 May the God of your father help you; may the Almighty bless you with the blessings of the heavens above, and blessings of the watery depths below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.
  • Job 3:12 Why was I laid on my mother’s lap? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
  • Job 24:9 “The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan.
  • Psalms 22:9 Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast.
  • Song of Solomon 1:13 My lover is like a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts.
  • Song of Solomon 4:5 Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).