Genesis 18:8
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.
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Butter
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Isaiah 7:22
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.
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חֶמְאָה
chemʼâh · khem-aw'
10 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
curdled milk or cheese
Strong's KJV usage: butter.
Strong's first: Genesis 18:8Strong's last: Isaiah 7:22
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machămâʼâh · makh-am-aw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
something buttery (i.e. unctuous and pleasant), as (figuratively) flattery
Strong's KJV usage: × than butter.
Strong's first: Psalms 55:21Strong's last: Psalms 55:21
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H2529
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
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butter
BUT'TER, noun [Latin butyrum.] An oily substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. Agitation separates the fat or oily part of milk from the thin or serous part, called butter-milk.
Butter, in the old chimistry, was applied to various preparations; as,
Butter of antimony, now called the sublimated muriate of antimony, and made by distilling a mixture of corrosive sublimate and the regulus.
Butter of arsenic, sublimated muriate of arsenic, made by a like process.
Butter of bismuth, sublimated muriate of bismuth.
Butter of tin, sublimated muriate of tin.
Butter of zink, sublimated muriate of zink.
Butter of cacao, is an oily concrete white matter obtained from the cacao nut, made by bruising the nut and boiling it in water.
Butter of wax, the oleaginous part of wax, obtained by distillation, and of a butyraceous consistence.
BUT'TER, verb transitive To smear with butter
1. To increase the stakes at every throw or every game; a cant term among gamesters.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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