2001 Translation

MASTOUS, mastous

Sounds Like: mas-TOOS

Translations: breasts, udders

From the root: ΜΑΣΤΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to breasts or udders, typically those of a female or an animal. It is used to describe the mammary glands, often in the context of nursing or feeding. In the provided example, it refers to infants nursing at the breast.

Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3149 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Song of Solomon — 1:4, 6:12, 7:13, 8:1, 8:8
• Job — 3:12
• Lamentations — 2:20
• Joel — 2:16

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 3:19
• 3 Maccabees — 5:49
• Song of Solomon — 1:4, 6:10, 7:12, 8:1, 8:8
• Job — 3:12
• Lamentations — 2:20, 4:3
• Ezekiel — 16:4
• Hosea — 9:14
• Joel — 2:16

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΑΣΤΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΜΑΣΤΟΙ — breasts, teats, udders
• ΜΑΣΤΟΣ — breast, a breast, nipple, teat
• ΜΑΣΤΟΥ — of a breast, of the breast, of a teat, of the teat
• ΜΑΣΤΩ — from the breasts, of the breasts, breasts, a breast
• ΜΑΣΤΩΔΕΣ — breast-shaped, breast-like, nipple-like, mammiform
• ΜΑΣΤΩΝ — of breasts, of nipples, of teats

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