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Strong's #4738 - στῆθος
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στῆθος, εος, τό, breast, of both sexes, being the front part of the θώραξ, divided into two μαστοί ( Arist. HA 493a12, PA 688a13, al.), Hom. and later (cf. στέρνον ), esp. in Prose, rare (and usu. metaph.) in post-Homeric verse; found once in Pi., twice in B., twice in A., never in S. or E. (v. infr. 1, 11); βάλε ς. παρὰ μαζόν Il. 4.480; ἔβαλε ς. μεταμάζιον 5.19; κληῒς ἀποέργει αὐχένα τε στῆθός τε 8.326, cf. Pl. Ti. 69e, 79c (pl.), Prt. 352a (pl.): in pl., διὰ στήθεσφιν ( Ep. gen.) ἔλασσε Il. 5.41; στήθεά τ' ἠδ' ἁπαλὴν δειρήν (of Briseis) 19.285; of animals, 11.282, 16.163, al., cf. X. Cyn. 4.1, Arist. HA 496a9, 15, al., PCair.Zen. 532.7, 18 (iii B.C.), BGU 469.7 (ii A.D.); ς. φάσσης ἑψημένης Sor. 2.41, cf. 1.51: as the seat of the voice and breath, Il. 3.221, 9.610, B. 5.15, A. Th. 563 (lyr.), 865 (anap.); more freq. as the seat of the heart, Il. 1.189, Od. 1.341, Sapph. 2.6, etc.; chest, Hp. Prorrh. 1.70, Ar. Nu. 1012, 1017 (both anap.), Th. 2.49 (pl.), Diocl.Fr. 142, IG 42(1).121.100 (pl., Epid., iv B.C. ), freq. in Arist. (v. supr.), PEnteux. 79.7 (iii B.C.), PTeb. 316.19 (i A.D.), Sor. 1.70b, al.; τὰ ς . breasts of a woman, Hp. Mul. 2.133 .
II metaph., the breast as the seat of feeling and thought, as we use heart, freq. in Hom., but always in pl., θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ὄρινε Il. 2.142, al.; θάρσος ἐνὶ ς. ἐνῆκεν 17.570; ἔχει κότον . . ε[]ν ς. ἑοῖσι 1.83; ἐν γάρ τοι ς. μένος πατρώϊον ἧκα 5.125; νόον καὶ θυμὸν ἐνὶ ς. ἔχοντες 4.309; μῆτιν ἐνὶ ς. κέκευθε Od. 3.18, cf. Pi. Fr. 218, B. 10.54: in Prose, εἰπεῖν ἃ ἔφησθα ἐν τῷ ς. ἔχειν Pl. Phdr. 236c; πλῆρες τὸ ς. ἔχειν ib. 235c .
III = cross στέρνον 111, breastbone, Hp. Art. 14 .
2. ball of the foot, ib. 55, 58, cf. Epid. 4.1, Ruf. Onom. 125; τὸ σαρκῶδες [τοῦ ποδὸς] κάτωθεν στῆθος Arist. HA 494a13; ball of the hand (below the thumb), Ruf. Onom. 86; (below the fingers), Gal. 14.704; palm, dub. in Hp. Oss. 9: cf. προστηθίς .
3. swelling, tumour, ἐν τῷ ἥπατι Aret. CA 2.6 (pl.). breastshaped hill or bank, Plb. 4.41.3, PMasp. 169b47 (vi A.D.), cf. Hsch. ( στῆθος has pan-Hellenic η, Sapph., Pi. ll.cc., IG 42(1) l.c., Call. Lav.Pall. 88, Theoc. 2.79, 15.108, 135 .)
στῆθος, στήθους, τό (from ἵστημι; that which stands out, is prominent (Etym. Magn. 727, 19 διότι ἕστηκεν ἀσάλευτον)), from Homer down, the breast: John 13:25; John 21:20 (cf. κόλπος, 1); Revelation 15:6. τύπτειν εἰς τό στῆθος or τύπτειν τό στῆθος, of mourners (see κόπτω), Luke 18:13; Luke 23:48.
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στῆθος , -ους , τό ,
[in LXX: Exodus 28:23; Exodus 28:26 (29-30) (H3820), etc.;]
the breast: John 13:25; John 21:10, Revelation 15:6; as a sign of penitence, τύπτειν (εἰς ) τὸ σ ., Luke 18:13; Luke 23:48,†
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";take along with"; (as helper), as in Acts 15:37 f where Ramsay (Galatians, p. 293) points out that the word implies ";a private companion or minister, who is not sent forth on the mission as an envoy, but is taken by the envoys on their own authority."; Cf. BGU I. 226.12 (A.D. 99) περὶ ἧς ἐνεχίρισε συνπαραλαβὼν ἑαυτῶι τὸν τοῦ ἑτέρου μου ἀδελφοῦ Ἐριέως, and P Lond 358.6 (c. A.D. 150) (= II. p. 172) συμπαραλαβόντας αὐτοῖς Ἡρ ̣ακλε ̣ίδην ὑπηρέτην. See also P Ryl II. 189.8, .9 (A.D. 128), where the verb appears bis in a receipt issued by the receivers of public clothing—Διογέν [η ]ς παρέλαβα. Ὀνησᾶς συνπαρέλαβα. Φιλόξε ̣ν ̣ο ̣ς ̣ συνπαρέλαβα. ";Received by me, Diogenes. Received also by me, Onesas. Received also by me, Philoxenus.";
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