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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also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
His eyes are darker than wine. His teeth are whiter than milk.
Is it not enough that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey only to kill us in the desert? Do you also have to order us around?
He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.
The children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah. Jehovah swore that he would not show them the land, which he swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
You will have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.
At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food. Everyone who drinks milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
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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He took butter and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree as they ate.
also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
His eyes are darker than wine. His teeth are whiter than milk.
I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
Jehovah shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. He swore to your fathers to give you this land flowing with milk and honey. You shall observe this rite in this month.
He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.
He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.
The children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah. Jehovah swore that he would not show them the land, which he swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
He said to her: Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty. She opened a jug of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
Sisera asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him cream in a beautiful bowl.
Also honey, yogurt, sheep, and cheese. They brought food for David and the others because they knew that everyone would be hungry, tired, and thirsty from being out in the desert.
He will not look upon the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
You will have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.
He will eat butter and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right.
They will give so much milk that he will have all he needs. Yes, the few survivors left in the land will have milk and honey to eat.
Then I would keep the promise I made to their ancestors that I would give them the rich and fertile land which they now have.'' I answered: Amen (Yes) Jehovah.
I am going to give you to the sons of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
It will happen in that day that the mountains will drop sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the brooks of Judah will flow with water. A fountain will come forth from the house of Jehovah and water the valley of Shittim.
I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!
At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food. Everyone who drinks milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to 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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He took butter and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree as they ate.
also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
Listen, O Israel, and be careful to obey these laws. Things will go well for you and your population will increase in a land flowing with milk and honey. This is what Jehovah the God of your ancestors promised you.
He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.
He said to her: Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty. She opened a jug of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
Sisera asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him cream in a beautiful bowl.
Also honey, yogurt, sheep, and cheese. They brought food for David and the others because they knew that everyone would be hungry, tired, and thirsty from being out in the desert.
He will not look upon the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
His loins are full of milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.
My steps were washed with milk and the rock poured out streams of oil for me!
You will have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.
Surely the churning of milk brings butter, and the wringing of the nose brings blood, so the forcing of wrath brings strife.
They will give so much milk that he will have all he needs. Yes, the few survivors left in the land will have milk and honey to eat.
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. You, who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
You will drink milk from other nations and nurse at royal breasts. Then you will know that I am Jehovah, your Savior, the Mighty One of Jacob, and your Defender (Protector).
I am going to give you to the sons of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
Think about the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.
At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food.
Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to 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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also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
Bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of Jehovah your God. Do not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.
I am Jehovah your God! You must bring the first part of your harvest to the place of worship. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Do not eat anything that dies by itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it. You may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.
He said to her: Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty. She opened a jug of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
He said to her: Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty. She opened a jug of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
She took a tent peg in one hand and hammer in the other. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull. Yes, she pierced him through the head.
Also take these ten slices of cheese to the commanding officer. Find out how your brothers are getting along. Bring back something to show that you saw them and that they are well.
Also honey, yogurt, sheep, and cheese. They brought food for David and the others because they knew that everyone would be hungry, tired, and thirsty from being out in the desert.
His speech was smoother than butter, but his heart was war! His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Surely the churning of milk brings butter, and the wringing of the nose brings blood, so the forcing of wrath brings strife.
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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He took butter and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree as they ate.
I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
So I said: 'I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.'
Bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of Jehovah your God. Do not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. You, who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
You will drink milk from other nations and nurse at royal breasts. Then you will know that I am Jehovah, your Savior, the Mighty One of Jacob, and your Defender (Protector).
It will happen in that day that the mountains will drop sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the brooks of Judah will flow with water. A fountain will come forth from the house of Jehovah and water the valley of Shittim.
I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!
At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food. Everyone who drinks milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to 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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also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.
You will have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.
I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!
At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food.
Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation.