Strong G4738στῆθος
chest
- Transliteration
- stēthos
- Pronunciation
- stay'-thos
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From G2476 (as standing prominently); the (entire external) bosom that is chest: - breast.
Detailed definition
στῆθος, -ους, τό
[in LXX: Exo.28:23, 26 (29-30) (לֵב), etc.;]
the breast: Jhn.13:25 21:10, Rev.15:6; as a sign of penitence, τύπτειν (εἰς) τὸ σ., Luk.18:13 23:48,†
(AS)
[in LXX: Exo.28:23, 26 (29-30) (לֵב), etc.;]
the breast: Jhn.13:25 21:10, Rev.15:6; as a sign of penitence, τύπτειν (εἰς) τὸ σ., Luk.18:13 23:48,†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4738 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- breast5
First verses
- Luke 18:13And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
- Luke 23:48And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
- John 13:25He then lying on Jesus’ breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
- John 21:20Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
- Revelation 15:6And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
στῆθος, εος, τό,
breast, of both sexes, being the front part of the θώραξ, divided into two μαστοί [Refs 8th c.BC+ ((4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 493a12, “PA” 688a13, +others), 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and later (compare στέρνον), especially in Prose, rare (and usually _metaphorically_))] in post-Homeric verse; found once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, twice in 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, twice in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus, never in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus or 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus (see. below 1, 11); βάλε σ. παρὰ μαζόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.480; ἔβαλε σ. μεταμάζιον 5.19; κληῒς ἀποέργει αὐχένα τε στῆθός τε 8.326, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 69e, 79c (_plural_), “Prt.” 352a (_plural_): in _plural_, διὰ στήθεσφιν (_Epic dialect_ _genitive_) ἔλασσε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.41; στήθεά τ᾽ ἠδ᾽ ἁπαλὴν δειρήν (of Briseis) 19.285)]; of animals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.282, 16.163, +others,compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 4.1, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 496a9, 15, +others, “PCair.Zen.” 532.7, 18 (3rd c.BC), “BGU” 469.7 (2nd c.AD))]; σ. φάσσης ἑψημένης [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.41, compare 1.51)]: as the seat of the voice and breath, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.221, 9.610, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.15, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 563 (Lyric poetry), 865 (_anapaest meter_))]; more frequently as the seat of the heart, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.189, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.341, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.6, etc.)]; chest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 1.70, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1012, 1017 (both _anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49 (_plural_), Diocl.fragment 142, “IG” 42(1).121.100 (_plural_, Epid., 4th c.BC), frequently in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus (see. above), “PEnteux.” 79.7 (3rd c.BC), “PTeb.” 316.19 (1st c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.70b, +others)]; τὰ σ. breasts of a woman, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.133.)]
II metaphorically, the breast as the seat of feeling and thought, as we use heart, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], but always in plural, θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ὄρινε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.142, +others; θάρσος ἐνὶ σ. ἐνῆκεν 17.570)]; ἔχει κότον.. ἐν σ. ἑοῖσι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.83; ἐν γάρ τοι σ. μένος πατρώϊον ἧκα 5.125; νόον καὶ θυμὸν ἐνὶ σ. ἔχοντες 4.309; μῆτιν ἐνὶ σ. κέκευθε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.18, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 218, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 10.54: in Prose, εἰπεῖν ἃ ἔφησθα ἐν τῷ σ. ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 236c; πλῆρες τὸ σ. ἔχειν [prev. work] 235c.)]
III ={στέρνον} [Refs (111,)]breastbone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 14.)]
III.2 ball of the foot, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 55, 58,compare “Epid.” 4.1, 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 125; τὸ σαρκῶδες [τοῦ ποδὸς] κάτωθεν στῆθος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 494a13)]; ball of the hand (below the thumb), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 86; (below the fingers), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.704)]; palm, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 9: compare προστηθίς.)]
III.3 swelling, tumour, ἐν τῷ ἥπατι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 2.6 (_plural_).)]
IV breastshaped hill or bank, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.41.3, “PMasp.” 169b47 (6th c.AD),compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus (στῆθος)] has pan-Hellenic η, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same places], “IG” 42(1) [same place], 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Lavacrum Palladis” 88, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.79, 15.108, 135.))]
breast, of both sexes, being the front part of the θώραξ, divided into two μαστοί [Refs 8th c.BC+ ((4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 493a12, “PA” 688a13, +others), 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and later (compare στέρνον), especially in Prose, rare (and usually _metaphorically_))] in post-Homeric verse; found once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, twice in 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, twice in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus, never in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus or 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus (see. below 1, 11); βάλε σ. παρὰ μαζόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.480; ἔβαλε σ. μεταμάζιον 5.19; κληῒς ἀποέργει αὐχένα τε στῆθός τε 8.326, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 69e, 79c (_plural_), “Prt.” 352a (_plural_): in _plural_, διὰ στήθεσφιν (_Epic dialect_ _genitive_) ἔλασσε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.41; στήθεά τ᾽ ἠδ᾽ ἁπαλὴν δειρήν (of Briseis) 19.285)]; of animals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.282, 16.163, +others,compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 4.1, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 496a9, 15, +others, “PCair.Zen.” 532.7, 18 (3rd c.BC), “BGU” 469.7 (2nd c.AD))]; σ. φάσσης ἑψημένης [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.41, compare 1.51)]: as the seat of the voice and breath, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.221, 9.610, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.15, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 563 (Lyric poetry), 865 (_anapaest meter_))]; more frequently as the seat of the heart, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.189, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.341, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.6, etc.)]; chest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 1.70, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1012, 1017 (both _anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49 (_plural_), Diocl.fragment 142, “IG” 42(1).121.100 (_plural_, Epid., 4th c.BC), frequently in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus (see. above), “PEnteux.” 79.7 (3rd c.BC), “PTeb.” 316.19 (1st c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.70b, +others)]; τὰ σ. breasts of a woman, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.133.)]
II metaphorically, the breast as the seat of feeling and thought, as we use heart, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], but always in plural, θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ὄρινε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.142, +others; θάρσος ἐνὶ σ. ἐνῆκεν 17.570)]; ἔχει κότον.. ἐν σ. ἑοῖσι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.83; ἐν γάρ τοι σ. μένος πατρώϊον ἧκα 5.125; νόον καὶ θυμὸν ἐνὶ σ. ἔχοντες 4.309; μῆτιν ἐνὶ σ. κέκευθε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.18, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 218, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 10.54: in Prose, εἰπεῖν ἃ ἔφησθα ἐν τῷ σ. ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 236c; πλῆρες τὸ σ. ἔχειν [prev. work] 235c.)]
III ={στέρνον} [Refs (111,)]breastbone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 14.)]
III.2 ball of the foot, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 55, 58,compare “Epid.” 4.1, 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 125; τὸ σαρκῶδες [τοῦ ποδὸς] κάτωθεν στῆθος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 494a13)]; ball of the hand (below the thumb), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 86; (below the fingers), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.704)]; palm, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 9: compare προστηθίς.)]
III.3 swelling, tumour, ἐν τῷ ἥπατι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 2.6 (_plural_).)]
IV breastshaped hill or bank, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.41.3, “PMasp.” 169b47 (6th c.AD),compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus (στῆθος)] has pan-Hellenic η, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same places], “IG” 42(1) [same place], 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Lavacrum Palladis” 88, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.79, 15.108, 135.))]