Butter
מַחֲמָאֹתStrong’s H4260machamaah (ma-cha-ma-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Machamaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “creamy things of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.”
Meaning
- Curd-like, smooth, unctuous, hypocriticalwords of flattery (fig.)
How it's translated
- creamy things of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲמָאֹת machamaah · butter
1) curd-like, smooth, unctuous, hypocritical 1a) words of flattery (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “butter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUT'TER, noun
[Latin butyrum.]
An oily substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. Agitation separates the fat or oily part of milk from the thin or serous part, called butter-milk.
All definitions and other forms of “butter”
BUT'TER, verb transitive
To smear with butter
- To increase the stakes at every throw or every game; a cant term among gamesters.
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.