the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

שדימ

From the root word sed meaning “breasts”, the 'Sedim' are literally, the Breasted Ones.

The word occurs only ten times, but traditional translations tend to ignore the implications of the im suffix and treat it as a simple plural, typically assign the meaning “breasts” in most cases¹⁾, or in one case, “nursing babies”²⁾.

Three additional instances³⁾ in Genesis 14 refer specifically to “the valley of Sedim”⁴⁾, whose literal meaning is “the Valley of The Breasted Ones”.

Bizarrely though, in two instances⁵⁾, the rather inexplicable traditional translation is “demons”

- there is a trail of evidence that suggests that 'sedim' might refer to “mammals”, particularly in contrast to “trees”.

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