μαστός, μαζός
mastos, mazos
“breast”
Definition
a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up)
from the base of G3145 (μασσάομαι);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
G:N-M
Greek Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
μαστός, μαζός appears 3 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man, dressed in a long robe, with a golden sash around His chest.
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