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2781 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Goat.11 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the milk they afforded and the excellency of the flesh of the kid. They formed an important part of pastoral wealth ( Genesis 31:10, Genesis 31:12; Genesis 32:14 …
2782 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Heifer.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ); giving milk ( Isaiah 7:21 ); ploughing ( Judges 14:18 ); treading out grain ( Jeremiah 50:11 ); unsubdued to the yoke an emblem of Judah ( Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:34 ).
2783 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Honey.7 (Matthew G. Easton)
… with milk and honey” ( Exodus 3:8 ). Milk and honey were among the chief dainties in the earlier ages, as they are now among the Bedawin; and butter and honey are also …
2784 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Kid.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated ( Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26; Deuteronomy 14:21 ). Among the various reasons assigned for this law, that appears …
2785 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Marriage-feasts.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… or milk skins hung up on pegs on the wall. (Comp. Psalm 119:83 .) To some such marriage-feast Jesus and his five disciples were invited at Cana of Galilee.” Geikie’s …
2787 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Milk.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Milk — (1.) Hebrew halabh, “new milk”, milk in its fresh state ( Judges 4:19 ). It is frequently mentioned in connection with honey ( Exodus 3:8; Exodus 13:5; Joshua 5:6; Isaiah …
2788 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Milk.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… , “curdled milk,” such as that which Abraham set before the angels ( Genesis 18:8 ), and which Jael gave to Sisera ( Judges 5:25 ). In this state milk was used by travellers …
2789 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Milk.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
This Hebrew word is also sometimes used for milk in general ( Deuteronomy 32:14; Job 20:17 ).
2790 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sisera.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… curdled milk) “in a lordly dish.” Having drunk the refreshing beverage, he lay down, and soon sank into the sleep of the weary. While he lay asleep Jael crept stealthily …
2791 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sisera.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… him milk; She brought him cream in a lordly dish. She stretched forth her hand to the nail, Her right hand to the workman’s hammer, And she smote Sisera; she crushed …
2792 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Wine.16 (Matthew G. Easton)
… with milk and honey” (debash), Exodus 3:8, Exodus 3:17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:3; Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 13:27. (See HONEY .)
2793 Etymology dictionary, p. ablactation (n.).2
… lactis ) "milk" (from PIE root *g(a)lag- "milk").
2794 Etymology dictionary, p. acidophilus (adj.).2
… of milk fermented by acidophilic bacteria, from acidophil (1900), indicating "easily stained by acid dyes," a hybrid word, from Latin acidus "acidic, sour, tart …
2795 Etymology dictionary, p. albacore (n.).2
name given to a large type of tuna caught in the Tropics, 1570s, from Portuguese albacora, from Arabic al bakara "milk cow;" the fish so called for its size.
2796 Etymology dictionary, p. balderdash (n.).2
… liquors" (milk and beer, beer and wine, etc.); by 1670s as "senseless jumble of words." Perhaps from dash and the first element perhaps cognate with Danish balder …
2797 Etymology dictionary, p. batter (n.1).2
in cookery, "a mixture of ingredients (flour, eggs, milk) beaten together," late 14c., from Old French batteure "a beating," from Latin battuere "to beat, knock" (see batter (v.)).
2798 Etymology dictionary, p. beestings (n.).2
"colostrum," late Old English bysting, from beost "first milk of a cow after calving," a general West Germanic word (cognates: Old High German biost, German Biest, Middle Dutch and Dutch biest, North Frisian bjast ) of unknown origin.
2799 Etymology dictionary, p. bonnyclabber (n.).2
… soured milk," 1620s (in shortened form clabber ), from Modern Irish bainne "milk" (from Middle Irish banne "drop," also, rarely, "milk"; cognate with Sanskrit bindu- "drop …
2800 Etymology dictionary, p. booze (n.).3
… wine, milk, sugar and rose-water in the summer time." In New Zealand from c. World War II, a drinking binge was a boozeroo .