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Genesis 49:25 שָׁדַ֖יִם breasts

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.

Here: A dual noun, meaning a natural pair: "the two breasts." It stands for nursing, so for children and young animals that survive and thrive. It echoes Shaddai earlier in the verse: the God called Shaddai gives the blessings of shadayim.

Job 3:12 שָּׁ֝דַ֗יִם breasts

Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

Job 24:9 מִשֹּׁ֣ד from [the] breast

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Psalm 22:9 שְׁדֵ֥י [the] breasts of

Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

Here: 'The breasts of' (a dual form, used for things that come in pairs). It means nursing infancy, which in Israel lasted until about age two or three.

Song of Songs 1:13 שָׁדַ֖י breasts my

My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

Song of Songs 4:5 שָׁדַ֛יִךְ breasts your

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

Song of Songs 7:3 שָׁדַ֛יִךְ breasts your

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

Song of Songs 7:7 וְשָׁדַ֖יִךְ and breasts your

Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.

Song of Songs 7:8 שָׁדַ֙יִךְ֙ breasts your

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 Songs 8:1 שְׁדֵ֣י [the] breasts of

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 Songs 8:8 וְשָׁדַ֖יִם and breasts

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?

Here: The dual form, "a pair of breasts." Developed breasts were the plain physical sign that a girl had become a woman and could marry (compare Ezek 16:7). The word goes first in its clause for emphasis.

Song of Songs 8:10 וְשָׁדַ֖י and breasts my

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.

Isaiah 28:9 מִשָּׁדָֽיִם׃ from 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?

Here: "From the breasts." Hebrew uses a special form here for a natural pair. The picture is earthy and on purpose: "Does he think we're nursing babies?"

Isaiah 32:12 שָׁדַ֖יִם breasts

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

Isaiah 60:16 וְשֹׁ֥ד and [the] breast of

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.

Here: 'And the breast of', a rare variant spelling of the usual shad, 'breast' (also at Isaiah 66:11 and Job 24:9). It is a different word from the identical-sounding shod, 'violence, destruction'.

Isaiah 66:11 מִשֹּׁ֖ד from [the] breast of

so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

Here: "From the breast of." This is a variant form of shad, "breast." The same form appears in 60:16, where Zion nurses at "the breast of kings."

Lamentations 4:3 שַׁ֔ד a breast

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Here: The ordinary word for a breast or teat, human or animal. Its bluntness keeps the picture physical and concrete: milk, nursing, the most basic act of keeping a newborn alive.

Ezekiel 16:7 שָׁדַ֤יִם breasts

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.

Here: 'Breasts' (a pair). The first of two concrete signs of puberty. They are named plainly as markers of age, not for erotic effect.

Ezekiel 23:3 שְׁדֵיהֶ֔ן breasts their

and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

Here: 'Their breasts.' The ordinary word for a woman's breasts, used for nursing as well as sexuality. It is the subject of the passive verb.

Ezekiel 23:21 שְׁדֵ֥י [the] breasts of

So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

Ezekiel 23:34 וְשָׁדַ֣יִךְ and breasts your

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 2:2 שָׁדֶֽיהָ׃ breasts her

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.

Here: 'Her breasts' (a pair, so the dual form). It suggests a pendant, amulet or sachet of perfume worn on the chest (compare Song 1:13), a sign of seduction or of loyalty to a cult.

Hosea 9:14 וְשָׁדַ֖יִם and breasts

Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

Here: The noun has the Hebrew 'pair' ending. The breasts stand for nursing and keeping an infant alive. Together with 'womb' it repeats a fixed pair from Jacob's blessing on Joseph, the father of Ephraim: 'blessings of the breasts and of the womb' (Gen 49:25).

Joel 2:16 שָׁדָ֑יִם breasts

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.

Here: The Hebrew form means a pair of breasts. It is a vivid, physical picture: mothers bring infants who cannot be left behind, so the whole household stands before God.