shad denotes the breast or paired breasts, in contexts of nursing, bodily development, affection, and injury.

The term denotes the physical breast or paired breasts. Its occurrences place them in bodily development and blessing, nursing and infancy, injury or mourning, and poetic comparison, without requiring a separate lexical meaning for those settings.

1. The physical breast or paired breasts · dominant

   The dual forms identify paired breasts in bodily settings: in Ezekiel 16:7 the APB renders their formation during growth, and in Genesis 49:25 it renders blessings involving breasts and the womb. The same bodily referent occurs in nursing scenes in Job 3:12 and Joel 2:16, in injury or mourning in Ezekiel 23:21 and Isaiah 32:12, and in poetic comparison in Song of Songs 4:5.

   Ezekiel 16:7Genesis 49:25Job 3:12Joel 2:16Ezekiel 23:21Song of Songs 4:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses “breasts,” including in growth, nursing, blessing, and poetic clauses; it also uses “breast” in singular or nursing expressions and “bosom” in Ezekiel 23:21. Some occurrences do not isolate a clear English counterpart.