Topic
Butter
9 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 18:8Easton · Smith · Nave General scriptures concerning
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 eat.
- Deuteronomy 32:14Easton · Smith · Nave General scriptures concerning
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 thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
- Judges 5:25Easton · Smith · Nave General scriptures concerning
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- Job 20:17Easton · Smith · Nave General scriptures concerning
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- 2 Samuel 17:29Easton · Nave General scriptures concerning
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 is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
- Proverbs 30:33Easton · Nave Made by churning
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
- Job 29:6Easton
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- Isaiah 7:15Nave General scriptures concerning
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- Isaiah 7:22Nave General scriptures concerning
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 that is left in the land.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 7 references
(Heb. hemah), curdled milk (Gen. 18:8; Judg. 5:25; 2 Sam. 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; Deut. 32:14). The words of Prov. 30:33 have been rendered by some “the pressure [not churning] of milk bringeth forth cheese.”
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
See FOOD.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.