שַׁד
shad · shad
the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)
Lexicon
Derivation: or שֹׁד; probably from H7736 (שׁוּד) (in its original sense) contracted;
the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: breast, pap, teat.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the doorway, the way in
To consume, to destroy of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שַׁד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- breasts4 · 17%
- the breasts2 · 8%
- the breast2 · 8%
- of the breasts1 · 4%
- me? or why the breasts1 · 4%
- from the breast1 · 4%
- all night betwixt my breasts1 · 4%
- and thy breasts1 · 4%
- thereof: now also thy breasts1 · 4%
- and she hath no breasts1 · 4%
- and my breasts1 · 4%
- from the breasts1 · 4%
- for the teats1 · 4%
- with the breasts1 · 4%
- thy breasts1 · 4%
- there were their breasts1 · 4%
- for the paps1 · 4%
- thine own breasts1 · 4%
- from between her breasts1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.