Lexical Definition

‎שַׁד‎ shad (shad) breast ^H:N-M
or שֹׁד shôd (shode); probably from ‎שׁוּד‎ (in its original sense) contracted

breast, pap, teat.

• the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)

1) breast, bosom, (female) breast
1a) breast (of woman)
1b) breast (of animal)
1c) breast (of both human and animal)

See Greek: μαστός

Extended Information

• Also means: shod (‎ש‎ֹׁ‎ד‎ "breast" שַׁד)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎שַׁד‎] noun masculine^{Hos 9:14} female breast; — absolute ‎שָׁ֑ד‎ Lam 4:3 elsewhere dual ‎שָׁדַיִם‎ Hos 9:14 +, construct ‎שְׁדֵי‎ Ezek 23:21 +, suffix ‎שָׁדַי‎ Song 1:13; Song 8:10, ‎שָׁדַיִךְ‎ Song 4:5 +, etc.; — breast:

1. of woman Hos 2:4*; Ezek 16:7; Ezek 23:3; Ezek 23:21 (‎שְׁדֵי‎ ‎נְעוּרָ֑יִךְ‎, || ‎דַּדַּיִךְ‎), vEzek 23:34 (> strike out ᵐ5 Manuscripts Co; — all these of personified People), Song 1:13; Song 4:5; Song 7:4*; Song 7:8*; Song 7:9*; Song 8:8; Song 8:10 of mother Ps 22:10*, with ‎יָנַק‎ suck Song 8:1; Job 3:12; Joel 2:15; Hos 9:14 (see [ ‎צָמַק‎]); ‎׳‎‎מִשּׁ‎ ‎עֲתִיקֵי‎ Isa 28:9 i.e. those already weaned, mature (|| ‎גְּמוּלֵי מֵךְָלָב‎). — Isa 32:12 see [‎ספד‎].

2. of animal Lam 4:3.

3. both human and animal, ‎וָרָ֑חַם‎ ‎׳‎‎בִּרְכוֺת שׁ‎ Gen 49:25 (poem in J).

II. ‎שֹׁד‎ noun masculine id. (compare the rare Arabic , Lane³³³ Ba^{ZMG ii. 637}); — ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ absolute, of mother Job 24:9 construct (figurative, with ‎יָנַק‎): ‎מְלָכִים‎ ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ Isa 60:16, ‎תַּנְחֻמֶיהָ‎ ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ Isa 66:11, i.e. the consolations of Jerusalem.

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