חָלָב chalav

Hebrew word for “milk” · Strong’s H2461 · used 44 times in 44 verses

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Meaning

1) milk, sour milk, cheese; 1a) milk; 1b) abundance of the land (metaph.); 1c) white (as milk)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chalav in context, with how often each is used:

• milk 41
• more than milk 2
• like milk 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 3 (2), Numbers 16 (2), Deuteronomy 26 (2), Song of Solomon 5 (2), Ezekiel 20 (2), Genesis 18 (1), Genesis 49 (1), Exodus 13 (1), Exodus 23 (1), Exodus 33 (1)

Forms

• חלב 28
• וחלב 4
• בחלב 4
• מחלב 3
• החלב 2
• כחלב 1
• חלבי 1
• חלבך 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chalav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• דְּבַשׁ devash “honey” 23
• זוּב zuv “to flow” 20
• חֶמְאָה chemah “curd” 5
• שָׁבַע shava “to swear” 7
• אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 6
• אָב av “father” 9
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 7
• נוּ nu “us” 5
• גְּדִי gedi “kid” 3
• בָּשַׁל bashal “to boil” 3
• חִוִּי chivvi “Hivite” 3
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 6

Key verses

The verses using chalav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing…
• Exodus 13:5 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which…
• Exodus 23:19 — The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
• Exodus 33:3 — Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
• Deuteronomy 31:20 — For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled…
• Deuteronomy 32:14 — Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the…
• Song of Solomon 5:1 — I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my…
• Isaiah 28:9 — Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
• Isaiah 55:1 — Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without…
• Jeremiah 32:22 — And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
• Ezekiel 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey,…
• Joel 3:18 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.