# חָלָב (chalav)

Israeli respelling: cha-lav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2461. 44 Old Testament occurrences.

milk (as the richness of kine)

King James renderings: [phrase] cheese, milk, sucking.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chalav-h2461

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/18/8) — 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…
- [Genesis 49:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/12) — His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
- [Exodus 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, un…
- [Exodus 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/17) — 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, an…
- [Exodus 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Exodus 23:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 m…
- [Exodus 33:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Exodus 34:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/26) — The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s m…
- [Leviticus 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/24) — But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey:…
- [Numbers 13:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/27) — And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the frui…
- [Numbers 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/8) — If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
- [Numbers 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/13) — Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou…
- [Numbers 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/14) — Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou…
- [Deuteronomy 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/3) — Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fa…
- [Deuteronomy 11:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/9) — And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that flow…
- [Deuteronomy 14:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/21) — Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou m…
- [Deuteronomy 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/9) — And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- [Deuteronomy 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/15) — Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto o…
- [Deuteronomy 27:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/27/3) — And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD th…
- [Deuteronomy 31:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ea…
- [Deuteronomy 32:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 tho…
- [Joshua 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/6) — 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 co…
- [Judges 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/19) — And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink,…
- [Judges 5:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/25) — He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- [1 Samuel 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/7/9) — And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and th…
- [1 Samuel 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/18) — And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
- [Job 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/10/10) — Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
- [Job 21:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/24) — His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
- [Proverbs 27:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/27) — And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
- [Proverbs 30:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/33) — Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth fort…
- [Song of Solomon 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/11) — Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Leban…
- [Song of Solomon 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 dru…
- [Song of Solomon 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/12) — His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
- [Isaiah 7:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/22) — And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat tha…
- [Isaiah 28:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 breast…
- [Isaiah 55:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 60:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/16) — Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and t…
- [Jeremiah 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/5) — That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then…
- [Jeremiah 32:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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;
- [Lamentations 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/7) — Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
- [Ezekiel 20:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 w…
- [Ezekiel 20:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/15) — Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with mi…
- [Ezekiel 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/4) — Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwe…
- [Joel 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…