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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7699

שַׁד

shadshad

breast; breast

24 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 H7699is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7699

the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)

The King James renders it: breast, pap, 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

shad is rendered "breast; breast". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "breast".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 49:25by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.

Genesis 49:25שָׁדַ֖יִם

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-four uses are in Song of Solomon.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: breast, and breast.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
breastStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 49:25by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you…
breastStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • breasts5
  • breasts of3
  • breasts your3
  • and breasts2
  • and breasts your2
  • a breast1
  • and breast of1
  • and breasts my1
  • breasts her1
  • breasts my1
  • breasts their1
  • from breast1

and 2 more, 24 uses in all

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.

שַׁדַּיShaddayAlmightyUses48

The words it stands beside

All 24, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • וְשָׁדַ֖יִם2
  • שְׁדֵ֥י2
  • שָׁדַ֛יִךְ2
  • שָׁדַ֖יִם2
  • וְשֹׁ֥ד1
  • וְשָׁדַ֖י1
  • וְשָׁדַ֖יִךְ1
  • וְשָׁדַ֣יִךְ1
  • מִשֹּׁ֣ד1
  • מִשֹּׁ֖ד1
  • מִשָּׁדָֽיִם׃1
  • שַׁ֔ד1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine dual5HNcmda
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmdc
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular3HNcmdc/Sp2fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual2HC/Ncmda
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HC/Ncmdc/Sp2fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncmdc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmdc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine plural1HNcmdc/Sp3fp
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmdc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine dual1HR/Ncmda

Genesis

one use
  • by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.

    Genesis 49:25

    • שָׁדַ֖יִםshadayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: breasts

Job

two uses
  • Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

    Job 3:12

    • שָּׁ֝דַ֗יִםshadayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: breasts
  • The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

    Job 24:9

    • מִשֹּׁ֣דmishodpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from breast

Psalms

one use
  • Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

    Psalms 22:9

    • שְׁדֵ֥יshedeinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: breasts of

Song of Solomon

eight uses
  • My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

    Song of Solomon 1:13

    • שָׁדַ֖יshadainoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: breasts my
  • Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.

    Song of Solomon 4:5

    • שָׁדַ֛יִךְshadayikhnoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: breasts your
  • Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

    Song of Solomon 7:3

    • שָׁדַ֛יִךְshadayikhnoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: breasts your
  • Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.

    Song of Solomon 7:7

    • וְשָׁדַ֖יִךְveshadayikhconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and breasts your
  • I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,

    Song of Solomon 7:8

    • שָׁדַ֙יִךְ֙shadayikhnoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: breasts your
  • O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

    Song of Solomon 8:1

    • שְׁדֵ֣יshedeinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: breasts of
  • We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

    Song of Solomon 8:8

    • וְשָׁדַ֖יִםveshadayimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dualtagged: and breasts
  • I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.

    Song of Solomon 8:10

    • וְשָׁדַ֖יveshadaiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and breasts my

Isaiah

four uses
  • Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

    Isaiah 28:9

    • מִשָּׁדָֽיִם׃mishadayimpreposition + noun · masculine dualtagged: from breasts
  • Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

    Isaiah 32:12

    • שָׁדַ֖יִםshadayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: breasts
  • You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

    Isaiah 60:16

    • וְשֹׁ֥דveshodconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and breast of
  • so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

    Isaiah 66:11

    • מִשֹּׁ֖דmishodpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from breast of

Lamentations

one use
  • Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

    Lamentations 4:3

    • שַׁ֔דshadnoun · masculine singulartagged: a breast

Ezekiel

four uses
  • I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

    Ezekiel 16:7

    • שָׁדַ֤יִםshadayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: breasts
  • and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

    Ezekiel 23:3

    • שְׁדֵיהֶ֔ןshedeihennoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: breasts their
  • So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

    Ezekiel 23:21

    • שְׁדֵ֥יshedeinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: breasts of
  • You will drink it and drain it; you will dash it to pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 23:34

    • וְשָׁדַ֣יִךְveshadayikhconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and breasts your

Hosea

two uses
  • Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

    Hosea 2:2

    • שָׁדֶֽיהָ׃shadeihanoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: breasts her
  • Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

    Hosea 9:14

    • וְשָׁדַ֖יִםveshadayimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dualtagged: and breasts

Joel

one use
  • Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

    Joel 2:16

    • שָׁדָ֑יִםshadayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: breasts

The letters

Gematria 304

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.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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