Cheese
שְׁפוֹתStrong’s H8194shaphah (sha-phah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shaphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cheese of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Cream, cheesemeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- and cheese of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שְׁפוֹת shaphah · cheese
1) cream, cheese 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cheese” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHEESE, noun
- The curd of milk, coagulated by rennet, separated from the serum or whey, and pressed in a vat, hoop or mold.
- A mass of pumice or ground apples placed on a press.
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.