Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1717
דַּד
daddad
breast
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1717is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1717
the breast (as the seat of love, or from its shape)
The King James renders it: breast, teat.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
dad is rendered "breast". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 5:19A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
Proverbs 5:19דַּ֭דֶּיהָ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- nipples of2
- breasts her1
- nipples your1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דַּדֵּ֖י1
- דַּדֵּ֣י1
- דַּ֭דֶּיהָ1
- דַּדַּ֔יִךְ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmdc
- noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmdc/Sp2fs
- noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmdc/Sp3fs
Proverbs
one use
A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
- דַּ֭דֶּיהָdadeihanoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: breasts her
Ezekiel
three uses
and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
- דַּדֵּ֖יdadeinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: nipples of
She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.
- דַּדֵּ֣יdadeinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: nipples of
So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.
- דַּדַּ֔יִךְdadayikhnoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: nipples your
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.