Lexical Summary mastos: the breast Original Word: μαστόςTransliteration: mastos Phonetic Spelling: (mas-tos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: the breast Meaning: the breast Strong's Concordance pap. From the base of massaomai; a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up) -- pap. see GREEK massaomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3149: μαζόςμαζός, μαζου, ὁ, the breast: of a man, Revelation 1:13 Lachmann ((see μαστός). From Homer down.) STRONGS NT 3149: μασθόςμασθός, Doric for μαστός (which see): Revelation 1:13 Tdf. (this form seems to be Western (Hort, Appendix, p. 149)). STRONGS NT 3149: μαστόςμαστός, μαστοῦ, ὁ (μάσσω to knead (more probably akin to μαδάω, Latinmadidus, etc.; cf. Vanicek, p. 693; Curtius, § 456)), from Sophocles, Herodotus down; the breast (for שַׁד, Job 3:12; Song of Solomon 1:13, etc.); plural, the breasts (nipples) of a man, Revelation 1:13 R G Tr WH (here Tdf. μασθοις (cf. WH's Appendix, p. 149a), Lachmann μαζοις); breasts of a woman, Luke 11:27; Luke 23:29. |
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