Shad שַׁד

Shad (Hebrew שַׁד, Strong's H7699) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “breast”. It occurs 24 times in 24 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H7699A: breast

H7699B: breast

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Shad, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 49:25
  Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: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.

Job

• Job 3:12
  Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
• Job 24:9
  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Psalms

• Psalm 22:9
  But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 1:13
  A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
• Song of Solomon 4:5
  Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
• Song of Solomon 7:3
  Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
• Song of Solomon 7:7
  This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
• Song of Solomon 7:8
  I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;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 8:1
  O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.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 8:8
  We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?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 8:10
  I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 28:9
  Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.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 32:12
  They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
• Isaiah 60:16
  Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.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 66:11
  That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

Lamentations

• Lamentations 4:3
  Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 16:7
  I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.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 23:3
  And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
• Ezekiel 23:21
  Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.
• Ezekiel 23:34
  Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.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.

Hosea

• Hosea 2:2
  Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;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 9:14
  Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

Joel

• Joel 2:16
  Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).