International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
TEATtet (shadh (Isaiah 32:12), dadh (Ezekiel 23:3, 11)): In all these passages the Revised Version (British and American) has replaced the word by "breast" or "bosom," both of which occasionally stand in poetical parallelism. The above passages in Ezekiel are to be understood figuratively of the inclination of Israel to connive at, and take part in, the idolatry of their neighbors. To "smite upon the breasts" (Isaiah 32:12, where the King James Version translates wrongly "lament for the teats") means "to mourn and grieve in the ostentatious way of oriental women."
See PAP.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
2. (n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.
Strong's Hebrew
1717. dad -- breast, teat, nipple... << 1716, 1717. dad. 1718 >>. breast,
teat, nipple. Transliteration: dad Phonetic
Spelling: (dad) Short Definition: bosom.
... breast,
teat.
... /hebrew/1717.htm - 6k 7699. shad -- (female) breast
... breast, pap, teat Or shod {shode}; probably from shuwd (in its original sense)
contracted; the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging) -- breast, pap, teat. ...
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