Curd
חֶמְאָהStrong’s H2529chemah (chem-ah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chemah is the Hebrew word usually translated “curd”, “curd of” and “butter”. It appears in 9 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
- Curd, butter
- Heatfever · venom, poison
- Burning anger, rageof man · of the he-goat in Daniel's vision · of God
How it's translated
- curd 5
- and curd 2
- curd of 1
- in curd 1
- butter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- 2 Samuel 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
- Judges 5:25He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- 2 Samuel 17:29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
- Job 20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- Job 29:6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- Proverbs 30:33Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Hebrew dictionary
חֶמְאָה chemah · curd
curd, butter
חֵמָה chemah · heat
1) heat 1a) fever 1b) venom, poison 2) burning anger, rage 2a) of man 2b) of the he-goat in Daniel's vision 2a) of God
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “curd” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CURD, noun
[See Crystal.]
The coagulated or thickened part of milk, which is formed into cheese, or, in some countries, eaten as common food. The word may sometimes perhaps be used for the coagulated part of any liquor.
All definitions and other forms of “curd”
CURD, verb transitive
To cause to coagulate; to turn to curd
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.