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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
Of cows, goats, camels, and
sheep
a favorite Oriental food
(
Gen. 32:15
15
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. (Genesis 32:15)
;
Deut. 32:14
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 pure blood of the grape. (Deuteronomy 32:14)
). Symbol of fertility (
Josh. 5:6
6
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not show them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey. (Joshua 5:6)
;
Heb. 5:12
12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. (Hebrews 5:12)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This from cows, goats,
sheep
and camels is plentifully used in the
East
. It is drunk in its
natural
condition, or shaken up in a skin into a sour curdled state, called in
scripture
“
butter
.” Flocks and herds were so numerous, and wild
honey
so plenteous, that the country was fitly called “a land flowing with milk and honey” (
Gen. 18:8
8
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. (Genesis 18:8)
;
Ex. 3:8, 17
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 with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Exodus 3:8)
17
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. (Exodus 3:17)
;
Ex. 18:19
19
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: (Exodus 18:19)
;
Joel 3:18
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 with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. (Joel 3:18)
). Milk is regarded as such a necessary article of sustenance that it is associated with
wine
to prefigure that which
grace
now supplies, without
money
and without price, and which will be supplied to
Israel
in a future
day
(
Isa. 55:1
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 price. (Isaiah 55:1)
). In the description of Israel’s promised
glory
it is said, “Thou shalt also suck the milk of the
Gentiles
” (
Isa. 40:16
16
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. (Isaiah 40:16)
). In the
New
Testament
milk is a symbol of the sustenance of
God
’s word (
1 Peter 2:2
2
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1 Peter 2:2)
); and is also referred to as food for infants in contrast to the solid food used by adults (
1 Cor. 3:2
2
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. (1 Corinthians 3:2)
;
Heb. 5:12-13
12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. (Hebrews 5:12‑13)
).
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
4711
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
matsats
Phonic:
maw-tsats’
Meaning:
a primitive root; to suck
KJV Usage:
milk
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