Milk
חָלָבStrong’s H2461chalav (cha-lav)
Appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalav is the Hebrew word usually translated “milk”, “milk of” and “more than milk”. It appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.”
Meaning
- Milk, sour milk, cheesemilk · abundance of the land (metaph.) · white (as milk)
How it's translated
- milk 28
- and milk 3
- in milk of 3
- more than milk 2
- milk of 2
- and milk of 1
- like milk 1
- milk my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 8
- Exodus 6
- Numbers 4
- Isaiah 4
- Song of Solomon 3
- Ezekiel 3
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
- Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
- Exodus 3:17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Exodus 13:5And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
- Exodus 23:19The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
- Exodus 33:3Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
All 44 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָלָב chalav · milk
1) milk, sour milk, cheese 1a) milk 1b) abundance of the land (metaph.) 1c) white (as milk)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “milk” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MILK, noun
- A white fluid or liquor, secreted by certain glands in female animals, and drawn from the breasts for the nourishment of their young.
- The white juice of certain plants.
- Emulsion made by bruising seeds.
All definitions and other forms of “milk”
MILK, verb transitive
[Latin mulgeo.]
- To draw or press milk from the breasts by the hand, as, to milk a cow.
- To suck. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.