Help QuickNav Adv. Options
ESV

ESV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H2461 - ḥālāḇ

Choose a new font size and typeface
חָלָב
Transliteration
ḥālāḇ
Pronunciation
khaw-lawb'
Listen
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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:12

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

Tools

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.

Tools

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.”’

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.”

Tools

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.”

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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?

Tools

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.”

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.’

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:9 - So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. And Samuel cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18 - Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:10

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - his pails[fn] full of milk
and the marrow of his bones moist.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:27 - There will be enough goats’ milk for your food,
for the food of your household
and maintenance for your girls.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.

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

Tools

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]

Tools

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.

Tools

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?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1 - “Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.

Tools

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.

Tools

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.”

Tools

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.

Tools

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]

Tools

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.

Tools

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,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4 - therefore behold, I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

Tools

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.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
ESV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
ESV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.