μαστός
mastos · breast
Greek word · Strong’s number G3149 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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mastos (μαστός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “breast”.
How to say it
mas·tos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A woman's bosom; also the upper body.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- breasts ×2
- chest ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Luke 11:27
Now it happened, as he was saying these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Happy is the womb that carried you, and the breasts that you nursed at!”
- Luke 23:29
for look, days are coming in which they will say, ‘Happy are the barren and the wombs that did not bear, and the breasts that did not nurse!’
- Revelation 1:13
and in the middle of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet and wrapped around the chest with a golden sash.