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Lexicon :: Strong's G1051 - gala

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γάλα
Transliteration
gala (Key)
Pronunciation
gal'-ah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
mGNT
5x in 2 unique form(s) TR
5x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
42x in 4 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:645,111

Strong’s Definitions

γάλα gála, gal'-ah; of uncertain affinity; milk (figuratively):—milk.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G1051 in the following manner: milk (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G1051 in the following manner: milk (5x).

  1. milk

  2. a metaph. for the less difficult Christian truths

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
γάλα gála, gal'-ah; of uncertain affinity; milk (figuratively):—milk.
STRONGS G1051:
γάλα, -λακτος [cf. Latin lac; Curtius, § 123], τό, [from Homer down], milk: 1 Corinthians 9:7. Metaphorically, of the less difficult truths of the Christian religion, 1 Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12f (Quintilian 2, 4, 5 "doctoribus hoc esse curae velim, ut teneras adhuc mentes more nutricum mollius alant et satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur," [cf. Siegfried, Philo von Alex., p. 329, cf. p. 261]); of the word of God, by which souls newly regenerate are healthfully nourished unto growth in the Christian life, 1 Peter 2:2.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Corinthians
3:2; 9:7
Hebrews
5:12
1 Peter
2:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1051 matches the Greek γάλα (gala),
which occurs 42 times in 42 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:8 - Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12 - His eyes are darker than wine,
and his teeth whiter than milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - “The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:3 - Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:24 - But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:27 - And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:9 - And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:14 - Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat[fn] of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest[fn] of the wheat—
and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - He asked for water and she gave him milk;
she brought him curds in a noble’s bowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:10 - Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 - when my steps were washed with butter,
and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:70

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:70 - their heart is unfeeling like fat,
but I delight in your law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:33 - For pressing milk produces curds,
pressing the nose produces blood,
and pressing anger produces strife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 - Your lips drip nectar, my bride;
honey and milk are under your tongue;
the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 - He
I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,
I gathered my myrrh with my spice,
I ate my honeycomb with my honey,
I drank my wine with my milk.

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Eat, friends, drink,
and be drunk with love!

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12 - His eyes are like doves
beside streams of water,
bathed in milk,
sitting beside a full pool.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:9 - “To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:16 - You shall suck the milk of nations;
you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.” Then I answered, “So be it, LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:22 - And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Her princes were purer than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
the beauty of their form[fn] was like sapphire.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:3 - You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - “And in that day
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD
and water the Valley of Shittim.
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