# חֶמְאָה (chemah)

Israeli respelling: chem-ah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2529. 9 Old Testament occurrences.

curdled milk or cheese

King James renderings: butter.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chemah-h2529

## 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…
- [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…
- [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.
- [2 Samuel 17:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/29) — And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people i…
- [Job 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/17) — He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- [Job 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/6) — When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- [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…
- [Isaiah 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/15) — Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- [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…