TBESH · H2461
חָלָב · cha.lav · milk
1) milk, sour milk, cheese 1a) milk 1b) abundance of the land (metaph.) 1c) white (as milk)
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cha.lav H2461
חָלָב (cha.lav) means “milk” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חָלָב Hebrew · H2461 44 tagged occurrences in 44 verses
Pronunciation guide: khaw-lawb' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from the same as H2459 (חֶלֶב); milk (as the richness of kine)
KJV glosses: [phrase] cheese, milk, sucking.
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How translators render H2461
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| with milk | 21 |
| milk | 5 |
| and milk | 4 |
| of milk | 3 |
| than milk | 2 |
| from milk | 1 |
| in milk | 1 |
| like milk | 1 |
| my milk | 1 |
| of cheese | 1 |
| suckling | 1 |
| the milk | 1 |
| your milk | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| with milk | 23 |
| milk | 5 |
| and milk | 4 |
| of milk | 4 |
| as milk | 1 |
| cheeses | 1 |
| from the milk | 1 |
| sucking | 1 |
| than milk | 1 |
| the milk | 1 |
| thy milk | 1 |
| with my milk | 1 |
Verses containing H2461
Page 1 of 1. 44 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 18:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.
Read word by word - Genesis 49:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
Read word by word - Exodus 3:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Read word by word - Exodus 3:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Read word by word - Exodus 13:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.
Read word by word - Exodus 23:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Read word by word - Exodus 33:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Read word by word - Exodus 34:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Read word by word - Leviticus 20:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since 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 peoples.
Read word by word - Numbers 13:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
Read word by word - Numbers 14:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
Read word by word - Numbers 16:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?
Read word by word - Numbers 16:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 6:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 11:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 26:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 26:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 27:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 31:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 32:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
Read word by word - Joshua 5:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Read word by word - Judges 4:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.
Read word by word - Judges 5:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 7:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on behalf of Israel, and the LORD answered him.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 17:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.
Read word by word - Job 10:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
Read word by word - Job 21:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
Read word by word - Proverbs 27:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
Read word by word - Proverbs 30:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings forth strife.”
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 4:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 5:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 5:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
Read word by word - Isaiah 28:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
Read word by word - Isaiah 55:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
Read word by word - Isaiah 60:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 11:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 32:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Read word by word - Lamentations 4:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day I swore to 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 glory of all lands.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, with an uplifted hand 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 glory of all lands—
Read word by word - Ezekiel 25:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
therefore I will indeed give you as a possession to the people of the East. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
Read word by word - Joel 3:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.18