Word

μαστός

mastós · G3149 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

breast

The breast of both humans and animals, with special reference to the mammary glands

Examples
Luke 11:27 While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts at which You nursed!”
Luke 23:29 “For behold, days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are those who cannot bear, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have not nursed.’
Revelation 1:13 and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and wrapped around the chest with a golden sash.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

θηλάζωto nurse (of a baby) 1
τρέφωto provide food for 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

μακάριοςblessed, happy 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πρόςto, toward, with 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

שַׁד shad · H7699 · breast: Hebrew שַׁד (shad, H7699) is the direct lexical equivalent for Greek μαστός (mastós, G3149), both denoting the female breast as a body part, frequently in contexts of nursing or maternal imagery.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Breast8.37: This lexeme denotes the human breast. Luke 11:27 records a woman in the crowd exclaiming, “Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts at which You nursed!”

Word family 11 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μασσάομαι massáomai · G3145 · to bite · 1×μάταιος mátaios · G3152 · useless, futile, empty · 6×ἐκμάσσω ekmássō · G1591 · to wipe dry · 5×μαστόςmastós · G3149ματαιότης mataiótēs · G3153 · useless, futile, empty · 3×αὐτόματος autómatos · G844 · without any cause, without something to cause it, by itself · 2×μάτην mátēn · G3155 · in vain, to no avail, with no result · 2×μαστίζω mastízō · G3147 · to whip, to beat with a whip, whipping · 1×ματαιολογία mataiología · G3150 · idle discussions, meaningless talk · 1×ματαιολόγος mataiológos · G3151 · empty talker, foolish babbler · 1×ματαιόω mataióō · G3154 · to become futile, to become worthless, to become nonsense · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μαζου, ὁ, the breast: of a man, Rev 1:13 Lachmann ((see μαστός). From Homer down.)

μαζου, ὁ, the breast: of a man, Rev 1:13 Lachmann ((see μαστός). From Homer down.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Parts of the Body3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0