שד
breast
‘breast’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
- Singular
- One.
2 verses where H7699 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Isaiah. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, שד (shad) means “breast.” Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. It appears 24 verses across 9 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Song of Solomon (33%), then Isaiah and Ezekiel. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 49:25. Dig into 24-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7699 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 24
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 24 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,327
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,327 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 24 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Song of Solomon 8 verses 33%
- Isaiah 4 verses 17%
- Ezekiel 4 verses 17%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 24 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 12 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 11 verses · 46%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Breasts 12×, Breast 3×
- American Standard Version†: Breasts 12×, Breast 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Breasts 19×, Breast 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Breasts 17×, Are 3×, And 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7699 across 24† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7699 across 24† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7699 across 24† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7699 across 32† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
שד I id. (cf. the rare Arabic ثُدٌ, Lane333 BaZMG xli. 637)
שד II ii. שֹׁד breast, v. שׁדה.
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
III. n.m. id. (cf. the rare Arabic ثُدٌ, Lane333 BaZMG xli. 637);—שׁ׳ abs., of mother Jb 24:9; cstr. (fig., c. יָנַק): שׁ׳ מְלָכִים Is 60:16, שׁ׳ תַּנְחֻמֶיהָ 66:11, i.e. the consolations of Jerusalem.
I. ii. שֹׁד breast, v. שׁדה.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שוד (shûwd) (H7736) — to destroy.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שַׂד
- (שָׂדַד) furrow.—Pl. שִׂדִּים, שִׂידִּ׳. Gen. R. s. 42 (expl. עמק השדים, Gen. XIV, 10) שהוא עשוי ש׳ ש׳ תלמים דבר אחר וכ׳ (the valley was called Siddim,) because it was made up into siddim, (which means) furrows; another explanation (as if שָׁדַיִם), because it fed its children like breasts; Yalk. ib. 72 (corr. acc.). e.g. Genesis 14:10
שַׁד
- , v. Ges. Thes. s. v.) female breast. Tosef. Sot. IV, 3 (ref. to לשד, Num. XI, 8) מה שד זה עיקר וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (Var. דד) as the breast is essential for the child and everything else is of secondary import, so was the manna &c.; מה שד זה אם יונק וכ׳ as the breast does not harm the child, even if it suck it an entire day &c.; Yoma 75ᵃ מה שד זה תינוק וכ׳ as the child finds in the breast all tastes &c.—Du. שָׁדַיִם; pl. constr. שְׁדֵי. Gen. R. s. 42; Yalk. ib. 72, v. preced. Tanḥ. Sh’moth 25 והיונקים כחלב משרי אמם and the sucklings found in the manna a taste like that of the milk from their mothers’ breast (ref. to Num. l. c.). Ber. 3ᵃ. Sot. 30ᵇ; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 11:8
שֵׁד
- (b. h.) demon. Yoma 75ᵃ (play on לשד, Num. XI, 8) מה שד זה מתהפך וכ׳ as the demon changes into many colors (appearances), so did the manna change into many tastes. Snh. 67ᵇ דקפיד אמנא שד, v. קְפַד. Ib. (ref. to Ex. VIII, 15) מיכן שאין השד וכ׳ from here we learn that the conjured demon cannot create anything smaller than a barley corn; a. fr.—Pl. שֵׁדִים, שֵׁדִין, שֵׁי׳. Lev. R. s. 22 (ref. to Lev. XVII, 7) ואין … אלא ש׳ this s’‘irim means demons; ואין ש׳ … שעירים and this shedim (Deut. XXXII, 17) means s’‘irim (ref. to Is. XIII, 21). Snh. l. c., v. לְהָטִים; a. fr.—Fem. שֵׁדָה, שֵׁי׳; pl. שֵׁדוֹת, שֵׁי׳. Pesik. R. s. 15 (expl. שרה ושדות, Koh. II, 8) שדים וש׳ male and female demons; Pesik. Haḥod., p. 45ᵇ before Solomon sinned, היה רודה בשידה וש׳ he ruled over all sorts of demonesses. e.g. Numbers 11:8
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 20 distinct written forms H7699 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7699, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 23 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 24 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 49:25
- Job 3:12
- Song of Solomon 1:13
- Isaiah 28:9
- Lamentations 4:3
- Ezekiel 16:7
- Hosea 2:2
- Joel 2:16
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
