Reference: Milk
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Is often alluded to in the Bible, as a symbol of pure, simple, and wholesome truth, Heb 5:12-13; 1Pe 2:2; and in connection with honey, to denote fertility and plenty, Ge 49:12; Nu 16:13; Jos 5:6. The Jews and their neighbors used not only the milk of cows, but also that of camels, sheep, and goats, Ge 32:15; De 32:14; Pr 27:27. See BUTTER and CHEESE.
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30 milking camels with their young, 40 cows with ten bulls, and 20 female donkeys with ten male donkeys.
Is it such an insignificant thing that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now you're trying to make yourself be a prince and rule over us, aren't you?
with curds from cattle and with milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, with the fat of goats, with the finest of wheat and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
The Israelis traveled 40 years in the wilderness until the entire nation that is, the warriors who had departed from Egypt had perished because they hadn't listened to the voice of the LORD. The LORD had promised them that he would not let them see the land that he had sworn to give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.
In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is still a baby and does not yet know the difference between right and wrong.
Easton
(1.) Hebrew halabh, "new milk", milk in its fresh state (Jg 4:19). It is frequently mentioned in connection with honey (Ex 3:8; 13:5; Jos 5:6; Isa 7:15,22; Jer 11:5). Sheep (De 32:14) and goats (Pr 27:27) and camels (Ge 32:15), as well as cows, are made to give their milk for the use of man. Milk is used figuratively as a sign of abundance (Ge 49:12; Eze 25:4; Joe 3:18). It is also a symbol of the rudiments of doctrine (1Co 3:2; Heb 5:12-13), and of the unadulterated word of God (1Pe 2:2).
(2.) Heb hem'ah, always rendered "butter" in the Authorized Version. It means "butter," but also more frequently "cream," or perhaps, as some think, "curdled milk," such as that which Abraham set before the angels (Ge 18:8), and which Jael gave to Sisera (Jg 5:25). In this state milk was used by travellers (2Sa 17:29). If kept long enough, it acquired a slightly intoxicating or soporific power.
This Hebrew word is also sometimes used for milk in general (De 32:14; Job 20:17).
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Then he took curds, milk, and the calf that had been prepared, placed the food in front of them, and stood near them under the tree while they ate.
30 milking camels with their young, 40 cows with ten bulls, and 20 female donkeys with ten male donkeys.
so I have come down to deliver them from their domination by the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the territory of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
When the LORD brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your ancestors to give you a land flowing with milk and honey you are to observe this ritual in this month.
with curds from cattle and with milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, with the fat of goats, with the finest of wheat and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
with curds from cattle and with milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, with the fat of goats, with the finest of wheat and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
The Israelis traveled 40 years in the wilderness until the entire nation that is, the warriors who had departed from Egypt had perished because they hadn't listened to the voice of the LORD. The LORD had promised them that he would not let them see the land that he had sworn to give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
He asked her, "Please give me some water to drink, because I'm thirsty." Instead, she opened a leather container of milk, gave him a drink, and then covered him up.
Sisera asked for water she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him yogurt!
honey, cheeses, sheep, and cheese made from cow's milk for David and his entourage because they had been reasoning, "The people are hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the wilderness."
You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.
He'll eat cheese and honey, when he knows enough to reject what's wrong and choose what's right.
and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will have cheese to eat, since whoever remains in the land will be eating cheese and honey.
As a result, I'll fulfill the oath that I made with your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, just as is the case today."'" Then I answered, "So be it, LORD."
therefore you'd better look out! I'm going to turn you over to men from the East, who will dominate you. You will become their property. They will set up military encampments and permanent places in which to live among you, and then they'll eat your fruit and drink your milk.
It will come about at that time that the mountains will drip with newly pressed wine, the hills will flow with milk, and the streams of Judah will flow abundantly. A fountain will spring from the Temple of the LORD, to water the Valley of the Acacias.
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!
In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is still a baby and does not yet know the difference between right and wrong.
Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.
Fausets
Children's food everywhere (1Pe 2:2; 1Co 3:2; Heb 5:12). In the East a leading element in men's diet also. "A land flowing with milk" symbolizes abundance (Ex 3:8; De 6:3). Chalab, "milk," means "fairness, fresh milk"; chemah is "milk coagulated", and is translated in KJV "butter"; rather leben, an Eastern preparation of milk (Jg 4:19; 5:25). Emblem of gospel blessings (Isa 55:1). In Job 21:24 translated for "breasts" "his milk vessels (Lee: Umbreit, his watering places for his herds) are full of milk." Also Job 20:17; 29:6, "I washed my steps with butter," i.e. wherever I stepped the richest plenty flowed for me.
Isa 60:16, "thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles," i.e. draw to thyself all their riches, or have them completely subject (Eze 25:4). The milk of sheep, camels, goats, and cows was used (De 32:14; Ge 32:15; Pr 27:27); "butter" in our sense occurs Pr 30:33. The leben; keeps for a considerable time, and so was suited to David's weary followers (2Sa 17:29). When the abundance of milk was due to the absence of tillage and of men to cultivate the lands, it was predicted as a scourge consequent on hostile invasion (Isa 7:22). Still offered in hospitality to the passing stranger, as by Abraham, Ge 18:8.
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Then he took curds, milk, and the calf that had been prepared, placed the food in front of them, and stood near them under the tree while they ate.
30 milking camels with their young, 40 cows with ten bulls, and 20 female donkeys with ten male donkeys.
so I have come down to deliver them from their domination by the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the territory of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Listen, Israel! Be careful to obey, so that life may go well for you and that you may increase greatly. Just as the LORD God of your ancestors told you, you'll have a land flowing with milk and honey.
with curds from cattle and with milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, with the fat of goats, with the finest of wheat and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
He asked her, "Please give me some water to drink, because I'm thirsty." Instead, she opened a leather container of milk, gave him a drink, and then covered him up.
Sisera asked for water she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him yogurt!
honey, cheeses, sheep, and cheese made from cow's milk for David and his entourage because they had been reasoning, "The people are hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the wilderness."
I was successful wherever I went, and even the rocks poured out streams of olive oil for me."
You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.
Just as whipping milk produces butter, and twisting the nose causes bleeding, so also stirring up anger produces contention.
and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will have cheese to eat, since whoever remains in the land will be eating cheese and honey.
"Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters! Also, you that have no money, come, buy, and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without price.
You'll suck the milk of nations, You'll suck the breasts of kings. Then you will realize that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
therefore you'd better look out! I'm going to turn you over to men from the East, who will dominate you. You will become their property. They will set up military encampments and permanent places in which to live among you, and then they'll eat your fruit and drink your milk.
Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.
In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.
Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.
Hastings
Milk was at all times an important article of diet among the Hebrews, and by ben-Sira is rightly assigned a prominent place among the principal things necessary for man's life (Sir 39:26). It was supplied by the females of the 'herd' and of the 'flock,' the latter term including both sheep and goats (De 32:14, where render 'sour milk [chem'
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30 milking camels with their young, 40 cows with ten bulls, and 20 female donkeys with ten male donkeys.
"You are to bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
"You are to bring the best of the first fruits of the ground to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
"You must not eat any carcass. But you may give it to the alien in your cities so he may eat it or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
with curds from cattle and with milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, with the fat of goats, with the finest of wheat and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
He asked her, "Please give me some water to drink, because I'm thirsty." Instead, she opened a leather container of milk, gave him a drink, and then covered him up.
He asked her, "Please give me some water to drink, because I'm thirsty." Instead, she opened a leather container of milk, gave him a drink, and then covered him up.
She reached out one hand for the tent peg, and her other for the workman's mallet. Then she struck Sisera, smashing his head, shattering and piercing his temple.
Take these ten pieces of cheese to the commander of the unit, check on the well-being of your brothers, and bring something back from them.
honey, cheeses, sheep, and cheese made from cow's milk for David and his entourage because they had been reasoning, "The people are hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the wilderness."
Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese?
Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese?
His mouth is as smooth as butter, while war is in his heart. His words were as smooth as olive oil, while his sword is drawn.
Just as whipping milk produces butter, and twisting the nose causes bleeding, so also stirring up anger produces contention.
Morish
This from cows, goats, sheep and camels is plentifully used in the East. It is drunk in its natural condition, or shaken up in a skin into a sour curdled state, called in scripture 'butter.' Flocks and herds were so numerous, and wild honey so plenteous, that the country was fitly called 'a land flowing with milk and honey.' Ge 18:8; Ex 3:8,17; 23:19; Joe 3:18. Milk is regarded as such a necessary article of sustenance that it is associated with wine to prefigure that which grace now supplies, without money and without price, and which will be supplied to Israel in a future day. Isa 55:1. In the description of Israel's promised glory it is said, "Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles." Isa 60:16. In the N.T. milk is a symbol of the sustenance of God's word, 1Pe 2:2; and is also referred to as food for infants in contrast to the solid food used by adults. 1Co 3:2; Heb 5:12-13.
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Then he took curds, milk, and the calf that had been prepared, placed the food in front of them, and stood near them under the tree while they ate.
so I have come down to deliver them from their domination by the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the territory of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
I have said that I will bring you out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
"You are to bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
"Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters! Also, you that have no money, come, buy, and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without price.
You'll suck the milk of nations, You'll suck the breasts of kings. Then you will realize that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
It will come about at that time that the mountains will drip with newly pressed wine, the hills will flow with milk, and the streams of Judah will flow abundantly. A fountain will spring from the Temple of the LORD, to water the Valley of the Acacias.
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!
In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is still a baby and does not yet know the difference between right and wrong.
Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.
Smith
Milk.
As an article of diet, milk holds a more important position in eastern countries than with us. It is not a mere adjunct in cookery, or restricted to the use of the young, although it is naturally the characteristic food of childhood, both from its simple and nutritive qualities.
and particularly as contrasted with meat,
but beyond this it is regarded as substantial food adapted alike to all ages and classes. Not only the milk of cows, but of sheep,
De 32:14
of camels,
and of goats,
was used; that latter appears to have been most highly prized.
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30 milking camels with their young, 40 cows with ten bulls, and 20 female donkeys with ten male donkeys.
with curds from cattle and with milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, with the fat of goats, with the finest of wheat and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!
In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.
Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.