noun · masculine
mastos
Strong’sG3149
a breast, pap
stem mast-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μαστός, -οῦ, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for שַׁד;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3149 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmas-tos'
a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up)
Fromfrom the base of G3145;
King Jamespap.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Epic dialect, Ionic dialect μαζός, Refs 8th c.BC+; twice in codices of Trag., Refs 5th c.BC+; Doric dialect μασδός Refs 3rd c.BC+; later μασθός LXX+3rd c.BC+ b, Refs 4th c.BC+ —usage contradicts the statement of Grammars that μαζός is the man's breast, μαστός the woman's:— breast, δεξιτερὸν κατὰ μαζόν Refs 8th c.BC+; of men's breasts, βάλε δουρὶ στέρνον ὑπὲρ μαζοῖο Refs 8th c.BC+
2 more frequently of a woman's breast, μαζὸν ἀνέσχε, of Hecuba pleading with Hector, Refs 8th c.BC+; γυναῖκά τε θήσατο μαζόν sucked her breast,Refs 8th c.BC+; προσέσχε μαζόν, of the mother, Refs 5th c.BC+
2.b rarely of animals, udder, Refs 3rd c.BC+
2.c generally, of the breasts of all mammalia, Refs 4th c.BC+
II metaphorically, any round, breast-shaped object:
II.1 round hill, knoll, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 round piece of wool fastened to the edge of nets, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 at Paphos, breast-shaped cup, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | mastos | mastois2×μαστοὶ |
| object accusative | maston | mastoin |
| direct address vocative | mastor | mastoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | mastou | mastoiu |
| to, for dative | masto | mastoi1×μαστοῖς |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
masto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
mastois“breasts”subjectnominative plural2×
Luke 11:27… tas koilias tas bastazarantas sin kai mastois hoin thēlazasa;… bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”
Luke 23:29… tais koiliais hais ouk gennala kai mastois hois ouk trefala.… the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
mastoi“chest”to, fordative plural1×
Revelation 1:13… enduorēnton podēron kai perizōnorēnton pros toi mastoi zōnan chrusouan;… with a golden sash around His chest.