STRONGS NUMBER H1717


Word Summary
dad: breast, teat, nipple
Original Word: דַד
Transliteration: dad
Phonetic Spelling: (dad)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: breast, teat, nipple
Meaning: breast, teat, nipple
Strong's Concordance
breast, teat

Apparently from the same as dowd; the breast (as the seat of love, or from its shape) -- breast, teat.

see HEBREW dowd

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1717. dad

[דַּד‎] noun masculineProverbs 5:19 breast, better teat, nipple (τιτθοί Aq 5:19 Symm Ezekiel 23:3, 21; Late Hebrew & Aramaic דַּד‎; primitive caressing word; according to Fl in NHWBi. 489) — Du. construct דַּדֵּי23:3, 8) both strike out ᵑ6 ᵐ5‎ Co); suffix דַּדַּיִךְ23:21 (read ᵑ6 בתוליך‎ Co); דַּדֶּיהָProverbs 5:19; — of breasts of woman 5:19; (Hi Bi read דֹּדֶיהָher love compare 7:18); of Samaria & Jerusalem under figure of young women Ezekiel 23:3 (בְּתוּלֵיהֶן דַּדֵּי‎) compare 23:8; דַּדַּיִךְ23:21; but probably strike out ׳ד‎ in Ezekiel compare above & GeiUrachrift 397. — See also שַׁד‎ below שׁדה‎.

דֹּדָה דֹּד,‎ see below דוד‎.