Strong's Lexicon

H1717

H1717 — דַּד

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewdadnoun mascOccurrences: 4TWOT: 405

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1717
Word:דַּד
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:apparently from the same as H1730
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:4
Transliteration:dad
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:dad
Meaning:1. the breast (as the seat of love, or from its shape)
KJV Renderings:breast, teat.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB1848

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


דֹּד, דֹּדָה see below דוד.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

דד (dad)

Proverbs 5:19

KJV: Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.satisfy…: Heb. water theebe thou…: Heb. err thou always in her love
EHCC: let her breasts satisfy thee
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