חָלָב
cha.lav
“milk”
Definition
milk (as the richness of kine)
from the same as H2459 (חֶלֶב);
- milk, sour milk, cheese 1a) milk 1b) abundance of the land (metaph.) 1c) white (as milk)
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
חָלָב appears 43 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock,with the fat of lambs,with rams from Bashan, and goats,with the choicest grains of wheat.From the juice of the finest grapesyou drank the wine.
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and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow,whiter than milk;their bodies were more ruddy than rubies,their appearance like sapphires.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.