3149. mastos
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mastos: Breast

Original Word: μαστός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: mastos
Pronunciation: mas-TOS
Phonetic Spelling: (mas-tos')
KJV: pap
NASB: breasts, chest
Word Origin: [from the base of G3145 (μασσάομαι - gnawed)]

1. a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
pap.

From the base of massaomai; a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up) -- pap.

see GREEK massaomai

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
der. from a prim. root ma-
Definition
the breast
NASB Translation
breasts (2), chest (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3149: μαζός

μαζός, μαζου, , 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, (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.

Forms and Transliterations
μαστοι μαστοί μαστοὶ μαστοις μαστοίς μαστοῖς μαστού μαστούς μαστών mastoi mastoì mastois mastoîs
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Englishman's Concordance
Luke 11:27 N-NMP
GRK: σε καὶ μαστοὶ οὓς ἐθήλασας
NAS: that bore You and the breasts at which
KJV: and the paps which
INT: you and [the] breasts at which you nursed

Luke 23:29 N-NMP
GRK: ἐγέννησαν καὶ μαστοὶ οἳ οὐκ
NAS: bore, and the breasts that never
KJV: bare, and the paps which never
INT: did bear and breasts which never

Revelation 1:13 N-DMP
GRK: πρὸς τοῖς μαστοῖς ζώνην χρυσᾶν
NAS: across His chest with a golden
KJV: about the paps with a golden
INT: at the breasts a belt golden

Strong's Greek 3149
3 Occurrences


μαστοὶ — 2 Occ.
μαστοῖς — 1 Occ.

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