galaktem

Strong’sG1051

milk

stem galakt-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

γάλα, -ακτος, τό

[in LXX for חלב;]

milk: I Co 9:7. Metaph., of elementary Christian teaching: I Co 3:2, He 5:12, 13; τὸ λογικὸν ἄδολον γ., the rational (spiritual) genuine milk (v. Hort, in l.), I Pe 2:2 (in support of AV, milk of the word, v. ICC, in l.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1051 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidgal'-ah

milk (figuratively)

Fromof uncertain affinity;

King Jamesmilk.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

γάλα [??], τό,
genitive γάλακτος (also γάλακος, dative γάλακι Refs 5th c.BC+ indeclinable, Refs 5th c.BC+, cf. Latin lac for glact):—milk, ἀμελγόμενοι γ. λευκόν Refs 8th c.BC+; εὔποτον γ., εὐτραφὲς γ., Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐν γάλακτι ὤν, τεθραμμένη, at the breast, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν γάλαξι τρέφεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐμπλῆσαι γάλακτος to fill full of milk, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 ὀρνίθων γ. (ὄρνιθος γάλα, ={ὀρνιθόγαλον}, Refs 5th c.BC+ as white of egg, compare Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 ἀγαθὸν γ. a good wet-nurse, Refs 3rd c.BC+; οὐδ᾽ εἰ γ. λαγοῦ εἶχον.. καὶ ταὧς, κατήσθιον Refs 2nd c.AD+
II milky sap of plants, Refs 4th c.BC+
III the milky way, Refs 4th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

milk5×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject or object direct	galaktem	galakteim
of, belonging to genitive	galakteu3×γάλακτος	galakteiu
to, for dative	galakte	galaktei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

galaktstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

galakte is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

galakteu“milk”of, belonging togenitive singular3×

1 Corinthians 9:7… tinos poimanatō poimnan kai ek teu galakteu tau poimnau ouk esthiatō?… and does not drink of its milk?

Hebrews 5:12… tou theou, kai genavē chreian echarōntois galakteu, ouk stereau trofēau.… principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!

Hebrews 5:13pantos gar tos metecharōntos galakteu apeiros logou dikaiosunau, nēpios gar atō;For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in …

galaktem2×

1 Corinthians 3:2galaktem vin potizama, ouk brōmem, oupō gar …I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were …

1 Peter 2:2hōs artigennēteim brefeim tem logikem adolem galaktem epipothavar, hina en aute auxaniveia eis …Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may …