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cheme'ah, from an Arabic root meaning "coagulated." Curdled
milk, curds, butter, and cheese (Judges 5:25; 2 Samuel 17:29).
But the butter in the East is more fluid and less solid than
ours. The milk is put in a whole goatskin bag, sewed up, and
hung on a frame so as to swing to and fro. The fluidity
explains Job 20:17, "brooks of honey and but...
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(1.) Hebrew halabh, "new milk", milk in its fresh state
(Judg.
4:19). It is frequently mentioned in connection with
honey (Ex.
3:8; 13:5; Josh. 5:6; Isa. 7:15, 22; Jer. 11:5).
Sheep (Deut.
32:14) and goats (Prov. 27:27) and camels (Gen.
32:15), as well
as cows, are made to give their milk for the use of
man. Milk is
used figuratively as a...
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The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto
the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk....
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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....
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Job 10:10; 1 Samuel 17:18; 2 Samuel 17:29. The modern Arabs
use either butter, or coagulated buttermilk dried so as to be
hard. Our "butter" means in derivation "cheese of kine." In
ancient Israel probably by "cheese" is meant milk compressed
in cakes, salted, soft when new, but soon becoming hard and
dry....
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(Heb. hemah), curdled milk (Gen. 18:8; Judg. 5:25; 2 Sam.
17:29), or butter in the form of the skim of hot milk
or cream,
called by the Arabs kaimak, a semi-fluid (Job 20:17;
29:6; Deut.
32:14). The words of Prov. 30:33 have been rendered by
some "the
pressure [not churning] of milk bringeth forth
cheese."...
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(A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized
Version as the translation of three different Hebrew
words: (1.)
1 Sam. 17:18, "ten cheeses;" i.e., ten sections of
curd. (2.) 2
Sam. 17:29, "cheese of kine" = perhaps curdled milk of
kine. The
Vulgate version reads "fat calves." (3.) Job 10:10,
curdled milk
is meant by the word....
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(Heb. beytsah, "whiteness"). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of
a
bird (Deut. 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14), the
cockatrice (Isa.
59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a
scorpion,
which is said to be very like an egg in its
appearance, so much
so as to be with difficulty at times distinguished
from it. In
Job 6:6 ("the white of an e...
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Job 10:10; 1 Samuel 17:18; 2 Samuel 17:29. The modern Arabs
use either butter, or coagulated buttermilk dried so as to be
hard. Our "butter" means in derivation "cheese of kine." In
ancient Israel probably by "cheese" is meant milk compressed
in cakes, salted, soft when new, but soon becoming hard and
dry....
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Children's food everywhere (1 Peter 2:2; 1 Corinthians 3:2;
Hebrews 5:12). In the East a leading element in men's diet
also. "A land flowing with milk" symbolizes abundance
(Exodus 3:8; Deuteronomy 6:3). Chalab, "milk," means
"fairness, fresh milk"; chemah is "milk coagulated", and is
translated in KJV "butter"; rather leben, an Eastern
prepa...
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