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Lexicon :: Strong's G3149 - mastos

Aa
μαστός
Transliteration
mastos (Key)
Pronunciation
mas-tos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of μασάομαι (G3145)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Strong’s Definitions

μαστός mastós, mas-tos'; from the base of G3145; a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up):—pap.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G3149 in the following manner: pap (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G3149 in the following manner: pap (3x).

  1. the breasts

  2. the breasts (nipples) of a man

  3. breasts of a women

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μαστός mastós, mas-tos'; from the base of G3145; a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up):—pap.
STRONGS G3149:
μαζός, μαζου, ὁ, the breast: of a man, Revelation 1:13 Lachmann ((see μαστός). From Homer down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Revelation
1:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3149 matches the Greek μαστός (mastos),
which occurs 31 times in 30 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - May the God of your father help you;
may the Almighty bless you
with the blessings of the heavens above,
and blessings of the watery depths below,
and blessings of the breasts and womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why was I laid on my mother’s lap?
Why did she nurse me at her breasts?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:9 - “The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast,
taking the baby as security for a loan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb
and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:2 -

Young Woman[fn]

Kiss me and kiss me again,
for your love is sweeter than wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4 - Take me with you; come, let’s run!
The king has brought me into his bedroom.

Young Women of Jerusalem

How happy we are for you, O king.
We praise your love even more than wine.

Young Woman


How right they are to adore you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:13 - My lover is like a sachet of myrrh
lying between my breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:5 - Your breasts are like two fawns,
twin fawns of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10 - Your love delights me,
my treasure, my bride.
Your love is better than wine,
your perfume more fragrant than spices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:11 -

Young Woman

I went down to the grove of walnut trees
and out to the valley to see the new spring growth,
to see whether the grapevines had budded
or the pomegranates were in bloom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:3 - Your breasts are like two fawns,
twin fawns of a gazelle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:7 - You are slender like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:8 - I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like grape clusters,
and the fragrance of your breath like apples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:12 - Let us get up early and go to the vineyards
to see if the grapevines have budded,
if the blossoms have opened,
and if the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:1 -

Young Woman

Oh, I wish you were my brother,
who nursed at my mother’s breasts.
Then I could kiss you no matter who was watching,
and no one would criticize me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:8 -

The Young Woman’s Brothers

We have a little sister
too young to have breasts.
What will we do for our sister
if someone asks to marry her?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10 -

Young Woman

I was a virgin, like a wall;
now my breasts are like towers.
When my lover looks at me,
he is delighted with what he sees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:9 - “Who does the LORD think we are?” they ask.
“Why does he speak to us like this?
Are we little children,
just recently weaned?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:12 - Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms
and your fruitful grapevines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:11 - Drink deeply of her glory
even as an infant drinks at its mother’s comforting breasts.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:14 - Does the snow ever disappear from the mountaintops of Lebanon?
Do the cold streams flowing from those distant mountains ever run dry?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - “O LORD, think about this!
Should you treat your own people this way?
Should mothers eat their own children,
those they once bounced on their knees?
Should priests and prophets be killed
within the Lord’s Temple?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Even the jackals feed their young,
but not my people Israel.
They ignore their children’s cries,
like ostriches in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - On the day you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and wrapped in cloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - And I helped you to thrive like a plant in the field. You grew up and became a beautiful jewel. Your breasts became full, and your body hair grew, but you were still naked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:3 - They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed men to fondle their breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21 - And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - “But now bring charges against Israel—your mother—
for she is no longer my wife,
and I am no longer her husband.
Tell her to remove the prostitute’s makeup from her face
and the clothing that exposes her breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:14 - O LORD, what should I request for your people?
I will ask for wombs that don’t give birth
and breasts that give no milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - Gather all the people—
the elders, the children, and even the babies.
Call the bridegroom from his quarters
and the bride from her private room.
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