Original Language Studio

Deuteronomy 32:14

“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.” (KJV)

Tap a word · read right to left

Lexical meaning

חֶמְאָהchemʼâh · khem-aw'
H2529 · Hebrew

Definition: curdled milk or cheese
Derivation: or (shortened) חֵמָה; from the same root as H2346 (חוֹמָה);
KJV renderings: butter.
Grammar: חֶמְאַ֨ת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
Code HNcfsc
Usage: Occurs 10 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 18:8 Judges 5:25 2 Samuel 17:29 Job 20:17 Job 29:6

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חֶמְאָה here.

Verse 13 Verse 15

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.