חֶמְאָה
chema · curds, butter
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2529 · appears 10 times in the Bible
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chema (חֶמְאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “curds, butter”.
Curds or butter: curdled milk.
How to say it
che·ma
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
- Thickened or churned milk, food of herdsmen and guests.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- curds ×6
- butter ×4
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 18:8
He took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
- Deuteronomy 32:14
curds of cattle and milk of the flock, with the fat of lambs and rams, sons of Bashan, and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and the blood of the grape you drank, foaming wine.
- Judges 5:25
Water he asked, milk she gave; in a bowl of nobles she presented curds.
- 2 Samuel 17:29
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd; they brought them near to David and to the people who were with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
- Job 20:17
He will not look on the streams, the rivers, the brooks of honey and curds.
- Job 29:6
when my steps were washed in curds, and the rock poured out beside me streams of oil.
- Proverbs 30:33
For the pressing of milk brings out butter, and the pressing of the nose brings out blood, and the pressing of anger brings out strife.
- Isaiah 7:15
Butter and honey he will eat when he knows how to reject evil and choose good.
- Isaiah 7:22
And it will happen that from the abundance of milk produced he will eat butter; for butter and honey will be eaten by everyone who is left in the midst of the land.
And 1 more times.