Dairy Products
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. 1Pe 2:2 and particularly as
contrasted with meat, 1Co 3:2; Heb 5:...
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is mentioned only three times in the Bible, and on each
occasion under a different name in the Hebrew. 1Sa 17:18; 2Sa
17:29; Job 10:10 It is difficult to decide how far these terms
correspond with our notion of cheese, for they simply express
various degrees of coagulation. Cheese is not at the present
day common among the Bedouin Arabs, butte...
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Curdled milk. Ge 18:8; De 32:14; Jud 5:25; Job 20:17 Milk is
generally offered to travellers in Israel in a curdled or sour
state, leben, thick, almost like butter. Hasselquist describes
the method of making butter employed by the Arab women: "they
made butter in a leather bag, hung on three poles erected for
the purpose, in the form of a cone...
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General scriptures concerning
Ge 18:8; De 32:14; Jud 5:25; 2Sa 17:29; Job 20:17; Isa
7:15,22
-Made by churning
Pr 30:33...
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General scriptures concerning
1Sa 17:18; 2Sa 17:29; Job 10:10...
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Used for food
Ge 18:8; Jud 4:19; So 5:1; Eze 25:4; 1Co 9:7
-Of goats
Pr 27:27
-Of sheep
De 32:14; Isa 7:21,22
-Of camels
Ge 32:15
-Of cows
De 32:14; 1Sa 6:7,10
-Churned
Pr 30:33
-Kid (a baby goat) not to be seethed (boiled) in its own
mother's
Ex 23:19; De 14:21
-FIGURATITE
Ex 3:8,17; 13:5; 33:3; Nu 13:27; De 26:9,15; Isa
55:1;
60...
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(betsah; oon; Latin ovum): An oval or spheroid body produced
by birds, fishes and reptiles, from which their young emerge
when incubated or naturally developed. The fertile egg of a
bird consists of the yolk, a small disk from which the
embryo develops, the albuminous white, and a calcareous
shell. The most ancient records prove that eggs have...
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milk (chalabh; gala; Latin lac (2 Esdras 2:19; 8:10)): The
fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for
the nourishment of their young. The word is used in the
Bible of that of human beings (Isa 28:9) as well as of that
of the lower animals (Ex 23:19). As a food it ranked next in
importance to bread (Ecclesiasticus 39:26). Israel...
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Milk-giving cows, sometimes called "milch kine," were in common use (I Samuel 6:7; Deuteronomy 32:14). [Manners And Customs of Bible Lands]...
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Use of goat's milk. The milk derived from goats is especially excellent and rich. Most of the "leben" used today and in Bible times is made from goat's milk. Buttermilk and cheese are also utilized as milk products. The book of Proverbs speaks of the importance of goat's milk to the Hebrew people: "Thou shalt have goat's milk enough for thy food, f...
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