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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Wave-Breast, Wave-Offering
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Breast
King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Breasts
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Striking of the Breast
• Soul of My Saviour, Sanctify My Breast
• Breast, Striking of the
Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Wilson's Bible Types
• Breast
Webster Dictionary
• Sweet-Breasted
• Single-Breasted
• Pigeon-Breasted
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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• Breast
• Breast (2)
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• Striking of the Breast
Lexicons
• ܚܰܕ݁ܳܝܳܐ
• ܥܽܘܒ݁ܳܐ
• ܬ݁ܕ݂ܳܐ
• μασθός , μαστός , μαζός
• στῆθος
• דַּד
• חֲדֵה
• חָזֶה
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Used typically for the source of nourishment. Israel "shall suck the breast of kings." Isaiah 60:16; cf. Isaiah 49:23; see also Job 24:9; Isaiah 66:11 .