Jump to: Smith's • ATS • ISBE • Easton's • Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms • Resources Smith's Bible Dictionary ButterCurdled milk. (Genesis 18:8; 32:14; Judges 5:25; Job 20:17) Milk is generally offered to travellers in Palestine in a curdled or sour state, leben , thick, almost like butter. Hasselquist describes the method of making butter employed by the Arab women: "they made butter in a leather bag, hung on three poles erected for the purpose, in the form of a cone, and drawn to and fro by two women." ATS Bible Dictionary ButterThe Hebrew word usually rendered butter denotes, properly, sour or curdled milk, Genesis 18:8; Jud 5:25; Job 20:17. This last is a favorite beverage in the East to the present day. Burckhardt, when crossing the desert from the country south of the Dead sea to Egypt, says, "Besides flour, I carried some butter and dried leben, (sour milk,) which, when dissolved in water, not only forms a refreshing beverage, but is much to be recommended as a preservative of health when travelling in summer." Yet butter may have been known to the Hebrews. It is much used by the Arabs and Syrians at the present day, and is made by pouring the milk into the common goatskin bottle, suspending this from the tent-poles, and swinging it to and fro with a jerk, until the process is completed. Still it is not certain that the Hebrew word rendered butter ever denotes that article. Even in Proverbs 30:33 we may render, "The pressing of milk bringeth forth cheese;" and everywhere else the rendering "curd," or "curdled milk," would be appropriate. Easton's Bible Dictionary (Hebrews hemah), curdled milk (Genesis 18:8; Judges 5:25; 2 Samuel 17:29), or butter in the form of the skim of hot milk or cream, called by the Arabs kaimak, a semi-fluid (Job 20:17; 29:6; Deuteronomy 32:14). The words of Proverbs 30:33 have been rendered by some "the pressure [not churning] of milk bringeth forth cheese." Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.2. (n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter. 3. (v. t.) To cover or spread with butter. 4. (v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. 5. (n.) One who, or that which, butts. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia BUTTERSee FOOD. Strong's Hebrew 4260. machamaah -- smoother than butter... 4259, 4260. machamaah. 4261 . smoother than butter. Transliteration: machamaah Phonetic Spelling: (makh-am-aw-aw') Short Definition: butter. ... /hebrew/4260.htm - 6k 2529. chemah -- curd Library It was Late in the Afternoon when Diamond and his Mother and the ... Of the Prophecies of the Birth and Achievements of Christ. "Pan, Pan is Dead" A vindication of the Prophecy in Isa. vii. 14 against the ... A Spirit Illumined Mind. Isaiah's Prophecies Considered the virginity of Christ's Mother a ... When one at the Back of the North Wind Wanted to Know How Things ... My California Trip Brother Hugh Shepherd Life in the Orient. Thesaurus Butter (10 Occurrences)... Easton's Bible Dictionary (Hebrews hemah), curdled milk (Genesis 18:8; Judges 5:25; 2 Samuel 17:29), or butter in the form of the skim of hot milk or cream ... /b/butter.htm - 10k Curd (8 Occurrences) Cream (5 Occurrences) Meal-time (1 Occurrence) Milk (66 Occurrences) Mealtime (1 Occurrence) Meals (8 Occurrences) Honey (62 Occurrences) Yielding (19 Occurrences) Rivulets (11 Occurrences) Resources What was olive oil a symbol of in the Bible? | GotQuestions.orgWhy can't Catholics eat meat on Fridays during Lent? | GotQuestions.org Butter: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus Concordance Butter (10 Occurrences)Genesis 18:8 Deuteronomy 32:14 Judges 5:25 2 Samuel 17:29 Job 20:17 Job 29:6 Psalms 55:21 Proverbs 30:33 Isaiah 7:15 Isaiah 7:22 Subtopics Butter: General Scriptures Concerning Related Terms |