shad · breasts

What it means

shad (שַׁד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “breasts”.

(of a nursing mother).

How to say it

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

1. A mother's bosom; or love and abundance.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• breasts ×20
• breast ×4

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×8
• Isaiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×2
• Joel×1

• Genesis 49:25

  by the El of your father, who will help you, and by Shaddai, who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

• Job 3:12

  Why did knees receive me, and why breasts, that I should nurse?

• Job 24:9

  They seize the orphan from the breast, and against the poor they take pledges.

• Psalms 22:9

  For you are the one who drew me out of the belly, who made me trust at the breasts of my mother.

• Song of Songs 1:13

  A little bag of myrrh is my beloved to me; between my breasts he spends the night.

• Song of Songs 4:5

  Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.

• Song of Songs 7:3

  Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

• Song of Songs 7:7

  This stature of yours is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters.

• Song of Songs 7:8

  I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its branches.” And please let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the fragrance of your nose like apples,

• Song of Songs 8:1

  If only you were like a brother to me, who nursed at the breasts of my mother! I would find you outside, I would kiss you, and yet no one would despise me.

• Song of Songs 8:8

  We have a little sister, and she has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister on the day when one speaks of her?

• Song of Songs 8:10

  I am a wall, and my breasts like towers; then I was in his eyes like one who finds peace.

• Isaiah 28:9

  “Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts?

• Isaiah 32:12

  On the breasts they beat themselves in lament, for the fields of delight, for the fruitful vine,

• Isaiah 60:16

  And you will suck the milk of nations, and the breast of kings you will suck; and you will know that I, YHWH, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

• Isaiah 66:11

  so that you may suck and be satisfied from the breast of her consolations; so that you may drink deeply and delight from the abundance of her glory.

• Lamentations 4:3

  Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their cubs; the daughter of my people has turned cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• Ezekiel 16:7

  A myriad, like the growth of the field, I made you, and you grew and became tall and came to the ornament of ornaments; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

• Ezekiel 23:3

  And they prostituted themselves in Egypt; in their youth they prostituted themselves; there their breasts were pressed, and there were squeezed the bosoms of their virginity.

• Ezekiel 23:21

  And you missed the infamy of your youth, when those from Egypt squeezed your bosoms for the sake of the breasts of your youth.

• Ezekiel 23:34

  And you will drink it and drain it, and its shards you will gnaw, and your breasts you will tear, for I have spoken, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Hosea 2:2

  Contend with your mother, contend, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; and let her remove her prostitutions from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

• Hosea 9:14

  Give them, YHWH; what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

• Joel 2:16

  Gather the people, consecrate the assembly, bring together the elders, gather the children and those nursing at the breasts; let the bridegroom go out from his room, and the bride from her canopy.