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Lexicon :: Strong's H2461 - ḥālāḇ

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חָלָב
Transliteration
ḥālāḇ
Pronunciation
khaw-lawb'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as חֵלֶב (H2459)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 650a

Strong’s Definitions

חָלָב châlâb, khaw-lawb'; from the same as H2459; milk (as the richness of kine):— cheese, milk, sucking.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's H2461 in the following manner: milk (42x), cheeses (1x), sucking (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's H2461 in the following manner: milk (42x), cheeses (1x), sucking (1x).

  1. milk, sour milk, cheese

    1. milk

    2. abundance of the land (metaph.)

    3. white (as milk)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָלָב châlâb, khaw-lawb'; from the same as H2459; milk (as the richness of kine):— cheese, milk, sucking.
STRONGS H2461: Abbreviations
† חָלָב noun masculine milk (Late Hebrew id. (and verb denominative); Aramaic חַלָבָּא, axblfo, Phoenician חלב; Arabic حَليبً noun fresh milk, حَلَبَ verb milk; Assyrian alibu, milk, see DlPr 174; Ethiopic ሐሊብ፡) — ח׳ absolute Genesis 18:18 + 35 times + Ezekiel 34:3 (see below); construct חֲלֵב Exodus 23:19 + 5 times; suffix חֲלָבִי Songs 5:1, חֲלָבֵךְ Ezekiel 25:4; — milk:
a. as common food Genesis 18:8 (J; distinct from חֶמְאָה curd, which see), חֲלֵב צאֹן Deuteronomy 32:14 (poetry; distinct from חֶמְאַת בָּקָר); in Judges 5:25 חָלָב is used parallel with חֶמְאָה; elsewhere חֶמְאָה seems to be produced from חָלָב : — מִיץ חָלָב יוֺצִיא חֶמְאָה Proverbs 30:33 a pressing (squeezing) of milk produces curd; מֵרֹב עֲשׂוֺת חָלָב יאֹכַל חֶמְאָה Isaiah 7:22 because of abundant yield of milk he shall eat curd; compare also חֲרִצֵי הֶחָלָב 1 Samuel 17:18 cuts of milk, i.e. cheeses; it was received in buckets or pails (עֲטִינָיו) Job 21:24 (see Ew De Di VB), and kept in skins (נאֹוד ח׳) Judges 4:19; men drank it (שׁתה) Ezekiel 25:4 (compare השׁקה Judges 4:19), but also ate it (אכל), if emendation הֶחָלָב Ezekiel 34:3 (for הַחֵלֶב) is right, Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Bo Hi-Sm Co, and others; it was poured out, see simile of formation of the embryo תַּתִּיכֵנִי הֲלֹא כֶח׳ Job 10:10 hast thou not poured me out like milk? specifically
(1) חֲלֵב עִזִּים לְלַחְמְךָ Proverbs 27:27 milk of goats for thy food (RSSemitic i. 204).
(2) with אֵם mother's milk: of kid לֹאתְֿבַשֵּׁל גְּדִי בַּחֲלֵב אִמּוֺ Exodus 23:19 = Exodus 34:26 (JE) = Deuteronomy 14:21, compare טְלֵה ח׳ 1 Samuel 7:9 sucking lamb (for sacrifice); but also of human beings גְּמוּלֵי מֵח׳ Isaiah 28:9 weaned from milk (|| עַתִּיקֵי מִשָּׁדָ֫יִם); figurative in promise to Zion וְיָנַקְתְּ חֲלֵב גּוֺיִם Isaiah 60:16 and thou shalt suck the milk of nations (|| תִּינָ֑קִי וְשֹׁד מְלָכִים).
(3) ח׳ with wine, as especially delicacy Songs 5:1 (see De), figurative of י׳''s choicest blessings Isaiah 55:1.
(4) often in phrase of productiveness of land of Canaan (דְּבַשׁ) זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָ֫שׁ flowing with milk and honey Exodus 3:8, 17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:3; Numbers 13:27; Numbers 14:8; Numbers 16:13, 14 (all J E), Leviticus 20:24 (H), Deuteronomy 6:3; Deuteronomy 11:9; Deuteronomy 26:9, 15; Deuteronomy 27:3; Deuteronomy 31:20; Joshua 5:6; Jeremiah 11:5; Jeremiah 32:22; Ezekiel 20:6, 15; in Messianic time the hills תֵּלַכְנָה ח׳ Joel 4:18 (|| יִטְּפוּ הֶהָרִים עָסִיס); figurative of charms of loved one תַּחַת לְשׁוֺנֵךְ דְּבַשׁ וְח׳ Songs 4:12 honey and milk are under thy tongue.
b. milk as white לְבֶןשִֿׁנַּיִם מֵח׳ Genesis 49:12 white of teeth, from milk; צַחוּ מֵח׳ Lamentations 4:7 they were whiter than milk (|| זַכּוּ מִשֶּׁלֶג); so also probably of eyes (iris) רֹחֲצוֺת בֶּח׳ Songs 5:12 bathed in milk, i.e. the white of the eye. — On milk as not used by Israel in sacrifice see RSSemitic 204.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

18:8; 18:18; 49:12

Exodus

3:8; 3:17; 13:5; 23:19; 23:19; 33:3; 34:26

Leviticus

20:24

Numbers

13:27; 14:8; 16:13; 16:14

Deuteronomy

6:3; 11:9; 14:21; 26:9; 26:15; 27:3; 31:20; 32:14

Joshua

5:6

Judges

4:19; 4:19; 5:25

1 Samuel

7:9; 17:18

Job

10:10; 21:24

Proverbs

27:27; 30:33

Song of Songs

4:12; 5:1; 5:1; 5:12

Isaiah

7:22; 28:9; 55:1; 60:16

Jeremiah

11:5; 32:22

Lamentations

4:7

Ezekiel

20:6; 20:15; 25:4; 25:4; 34:3; 34:3

H2461

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2461 matches the Hebrew חָלָב (ḥālāḇ),
which occurs 44 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:8 - And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed; and he set them before them, and they did eat, and he stood by them under the tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12 - His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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 out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Chananites, and the Chettites, and Amorites, and Pherezites, and Gergesites, and Evites, and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - And he said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Chananites and the Chettites, and Amorites and Pherezites, and Gergesites, and Evites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites, and the Chettites, and Amorites, and Evites, and Jebusites, and Gergesites, and Pherezites, which he sware to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - Thou shalt bring the first-offerings of the first-fruits of thy land into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a lamb in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:3 - And I will bring thee into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee by the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - The first-fruits of thy land shalt thou put into the house of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:24 - and I said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, even a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:27 - and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which thou sentest us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Is it a little thing that thou hast brought us up [fn]to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, and that thou altogether rulest over us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - Thou art a prince, and hast thou brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and hast thou given us an inheritance of land and vineyards? wouldest thou have [fn]put out the eyes of those men? we [fn]will not go up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers said that he would give thee a land flowing with milk and honey: and these are the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - that ye may live long upon the land, which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 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 BoxDeu 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - Look down from thy holy house, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given them, as thou didst swear to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - And thou shalt write on these stones all the words of this law, as soon as ye have crossed Jordan, when ye are entered into the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers gives thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, according as the Lord God of thy fathers said to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - For I will bring them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:14 - Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - Wherefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord sware to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - And Sisara said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty: and she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; she brought butter of princes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:9 - And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it up as a whole-burnt-offering with all the people to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:10 - Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused throughout him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:27 - My son, thou hast from me words very useful for thy life, and for the life of thy servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:33 - Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if thou wing one's nostrils there shall come out blood: so if thou extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 - Thy lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is as the smell of Libanus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 - Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12 - His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - And it shall come to pass from their [fn]drinking an abundance of milk, that every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:9 - To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1 - Ye that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go and buy; and eat and drink wine and fat without money or price.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:16 - And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt eat the wealth of kings: and shalt know that I am the Lord that saves thee and delivers thee, the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - that I may confirm mine oath, which I sware to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:22 - (LXX 39:22) and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Zain. Her Nazarites were made purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were purified as with fire, their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - in that day I helped them with my hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4 - therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in thee with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - (LXX 4:18) And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the [fn]fountains of Juda shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the valley of flags.
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