Strong’s H1717 · Hebrew

דַּד
dad
dad

Definition

the breast (as the seat of love, or from its shape)

Etymology

apparently from the same as H1730 (דּוֹד);

Where the KJV renders it

  • breast
  • teat

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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