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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

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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 Box Gen 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:8 - He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12 - His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook 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 the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook 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 said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:27 - They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Isn’t it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - Moreover, you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you want to treat these men like slaves[fn]? No, we will not come!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:9 - He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - Look down from heaven, your holy dwelling place, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:14 - with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - “I’m thirsty,” he said. “Please give me some water.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:9 - Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and sacrificed it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on Israel’s behalf, and the LORD answered him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18 - Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance[fn] from them.

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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 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - well nourished in body,[fn] bones rich with marrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:27 - You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:33 - For as churning cream produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 - Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey 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 have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Friends: Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12 - His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:9 - “Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1 - “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:16 - You will drink the milk of nations and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.” I answered, “Amen, LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:22 - You gave them this land you had sworn to give their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Their princes were brighter than snow and whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like lapis lazuli.

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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 Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4 - therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - “In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the LORD’s house and will water the valley of acacias.[fn]
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