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Strong's G3149 μαστός (mastos)

Mastos means “pap” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3149 — yezavel (“Jezavel”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3149
Language Greek
Linked Usages 37
Books 14

Strong's G3149 Quick Answer

Strong's G3149 μαστός (mastos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. mastos (mas-tos') n. 1. a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up) [from the base of G3145] It has 37 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include paps. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
mastos (mas-tos') n. 1. a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up) [from the base of G3145]
Usage
37 linked usages
Books
14 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
paps

Meaning and Definition

mastos (mas-tos') n. 1. a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up) [from the base of G3145] KJV: pap Root(s): G3145

Original Word
μαστός
Transliteration
mastos
Derivation
Root: μασσάομαι R1: 3145
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3149. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

breast

Usage: μαστός, -οῦ, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for שַׁד ;] the breast: pl., Luk.11:27 23:29, Rev.1:13 (T, μασθοῖς; WH, App., 149; L, μαζοῖς).† (AS)

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How Strong's G3149 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mastos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

paps Luke 11:27

How Strong's G3149 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 30 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3149 (μαστός) appears 35 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3149 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3149 in the New Testament

3 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 11:27 KJV

And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

Luke 23:29 KJV

For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

Revelation 1:13 KJV

And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

Strong's G3149 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

30 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 49:25 Septuagint / Brenton

And my God helped thee, And he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, And the blessing of the earth possessing all things, Because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,

Job 3:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And why did the knees support me? And why did I suck the breasts?

Job 24:9 Septuagint / Brenton

They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, And have afflicted the outcast.

Strong's G3149 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 3:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, abounded in the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ran, some to the gates, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

2 Maccabees 6:10 Septuagint / Brenton

For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes hanging at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.

3 Maccabees 5:49 Septuagint / Brenton

thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.

Usage Excerpts

First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3149.

Genesis 49:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And my God helped thee, And he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, And the blessing of the earth possessing all things, Because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,
Job 3:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And why did the knees support me? And why did I suck the breasts?
Job 24:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, And have afflicted the outcast.
Psalms 21:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou art he that drew me out of the womb; My hope from my mother’s breasts.
Song of Solomon 1:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: For thy breasts are better than wine.
Song of Solomon 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have drawn thee: We will run after thee, for the smell of thine ointments: The king has brought me into his closet: Let us rejoice and be glad in thee; We will love thy breasts more than wine: Righteousness loves thee.
Song of Solomon 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; He shall lie between my breasts.
Song of Solomon 4:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns, That feed among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! How much more beautiful are thy breasts than wine, And the smell of thy garments than all spices!
Song of Solomon 6:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I went down to the garden of nuts, To look at the fruits of the valley, To see if the vine flowered, If the pomegranates blossomed.
Song of Solomon 7:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns.
Song of Solomon 7:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is thy greatness in thy delights: Thou wast made like a palm tree, And thy breasts to clusters.
Song of Solomon 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: And now shall thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, And the smell of thy nose as apples;
Song of Solomon 7:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let us go early into the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has flowered, If the blossoms have appeared, If the pomegranates have blossomed; There will I give thee my breasts.
Song of Solomon 8:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother; When I found thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, they should not despise me.
Song of Solomon 8:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Our sister is little, and has no breasts; What shall we do for our sister, In the day wherein she shall be spoken for?
Song of Solomon 8:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers; I was in their eyes as one that found peace.
Isaiah 28:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.
Isaiah 32:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and beat on your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine.
Isaiah 66:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation; that ye may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.
Jeremiah 18:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will fertilizing streams fail to flow from a rock, or snow fail from Lebanon? will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?
Lamentations 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, O Lord, And see for whom thou hast gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? The cook has made a gathering: Shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? Wilt thou slay the priest and prophet In the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, They give suck to their young, The daughters of my people are incurably cruel, As an ostrich in a desert.
Ezekiel 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling bands.
Ezekiel 16:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
Ezekiel 23:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.
Ezekiel 23:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, the things which thou wroughtest in Egypt in thy lodging, where were the breasts of thy youth.
Hosea 2:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:
Hosea 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
Joel 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Luke 11:27 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Luke 23:29 New Testament, KJV
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Revelation 1:13 New Testament, KJV
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
2 Maccabees 3:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, abounded in the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ran, some to the gates, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.
2 Maccabees 6:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes hanging at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.
3 Maccabees 5:49 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.
3 Maccabees 5:50 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the succor before granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breast, and

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3149, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3149 FAQ

What does mastos (μαστός) mean?

Mastos (Strong's G3149) is a Greek word most simply glossed "pap". mastos (mas-tos') n. 1. a (properly, female) breast (as if kneaded up) [from the base of G3145]

How many times is mastos (μαστός) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's G3149 across 14 books.

Where can I study mastos (μαστός) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3149 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate mastos (μαστός)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as paps. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3149 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 30 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3149, with linked reader references where each row is available.