Milk
חָלָב (chalav)
Animal product not addressed by Leviticus 11's clean/unclean framework
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 48 verses (KJV)
Description
Milk from sheep, goats, and cattle was a daily staple, thickened into curds or churned into butter for storage. It’s also half of the most repeated description of the Promised Land in the entire Old Testament — a land flowing with milk and honey.
Key verses
“And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”
Exodus 3:8
“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”
1 Peter 2:2
Symbolism
Basic, life-giving nourishment for the newly born — ‘desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby’ (1 Peter 2:2).
All 48 referencesshow
- 1 Corinthians 3:2
- 1 Corinthians 9:7
- 1 Peter 2:2
- Deuteronomy 6:3
- Deuteronomy 11:9
- Deuteronomy 14:21
- Deuteronomy 26:9
- Deuteronomy 26:15
- Deuteronomy 27:3
- Deuteronomy 31:20
- Deuteronomy 32:14
- Exodus 3:8
- Exodus 3:17
- Exodus 13:5
- Exodus 23:19
- Exodus 33:3
- Exodus 34:26
- Ezekiel 20:6
- Ezekiel 20:15
- Ezekiel 25:4
- Genesis 18:8
- Genesis 49:12
- Hebrews 5:12
- Hebrews 5:13
- Isaiah 7:22
- Isaiah 28:9
- Isaiah 55:1
- Isaiah 60:16
- Isaiah 66:11
- Jeremiah 11:5
- Jeremiah 32:22
- Job 10:10
- Job 21:24
- Joel 3:18
- Joshua 5:6
- Judges 4:19
- Judges 5:25
- Lamentations 4:7
- Leviticus 20:24
- Numbers 13:27
- Numbers 14:8
- Numbers 16:13
- Numbers 16:14
- Proverbs 27:27
- Proverbs 30:33
- Song of Solomon 4:11
- Song of Solomon 5:1
- Song of Solomon 5:12