Deuteronomy 32:14
Old Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
צֹאן
tsôʼn
a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
חֶלֶב
cheleb
fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part
אַיִל
ʼayil
properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an o...
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
בָּשָׁן
Bâshân
Bashan (often with the article), a region East of the Jordan
עֵז
ʻêz
a she-goat (as strong), but masculine in plural (which also is used elliptically for goat's hair)
חֶלֶב
cheleb
fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part
כִּלְיָה
kilyâh
a kidney (as an essential organ); figuratively, the mind (as the interior self)
חִטָּה
chiṭṭâh
wheat, whether the grain or the plant
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
טָהוֹר
ṭâhôwr
pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)
דָּם
dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe...
סְמָדַר
çᵉmâdar
a vine blossom; used also adverbially, abloom
Key Terms in This Verse
בֵּן bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
Study H1121 →כִּלְיָה kilyâh
a kidney (as an essential organ); figuratively, the mind (as the interior self)
Study H3629 →בָּשָׁן Bâshân
Bashan (often with the article), a region East of the Jordan
Study H1316 →אַיִל ʼayil
properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree
Study H352 →Cross References
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
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.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
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.
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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