γάλα
gála · G1051 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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milk
White fluid secreted by women and female mammals for nourishment of their young; also used as food for humans
Examples1 Corinthians 3:2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to consume it. But even now you are not yet able,
1 Corinthians 9:7 Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not consume some of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποίμνηflock 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- λογικόςrational 1
- ἄδολοςunadulterated 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐπιποθέωto long for 1
- μετέχωto share in 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποτίζωto give to drink, to water 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- χρείαneed 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- חָלָב châlâb · H2461 · milk
- Hebrew חָלָב (châlâb, H2461) and Greek γάλα (gála, G1051) are direct translation equivalents denoting milk as a literal substance and its figurative/metaphorical uses (spiritual nourishment, the 'land flowing with milk and honey' imagery).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Milk5.19
- Used figuratively of elementary spiritual instruction, as of the milk Paul gave the Corinthians because they were not yet ready for solid food in 1 Corinthians 3:2 and the pure milk of the word newborn believers are told to long for in 1 Peter 2:2.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γάλακτος (cf. Latinlac; Curtius, § 123), τό (from Homer down), milk: 1 Cor 9:7.…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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