gala · milk

What it means

gala (γάλα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “milk”.

The food of little children; also as an image of simple, first teaching.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What a baby nurses on; also basic teaching.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Where it appears

• 1 Corinthians×2
• Hebrews×2
• 1 Peter×1

• 1 Corinthians 3:2

  I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able. But even now you are still unable,

• 1 Corinthians 9:7

  Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?

• Hebrews 5:12

  For indeed, though you ought to be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and you have become people needing milk, not solid food.

• Hebrews 5:13

  For everyone who feeds on milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is a child.

• 1 Peter 2:2

  like newborn infants, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow into salvation,