βούτυρον
butter, curds
Where this word appears
Every passage where βούτυρον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 18:8 βούτυρον And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed; and he set them before them, and they did eat, and he stood by them under the tree.
- Deuteronomy 32:14 βούτυρον Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.
- Judges 5:25 βούτυρον He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; she brought butter of princes.
- 2 Samuel 17:29 βούτυρον and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheeses of kine: and they brought them to David and to his people with him to eat; for one said, The people is faint and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.
- Job 20:17 βούτυρον Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.
- Job 29:6 βούτυρον when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.
- Proverbs 30:33 βούτυρον Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if you wing one's nostrils there shall come out blood: so if you extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes.
- Isaiah 7:15 βούτυρον Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil or choose the good.
- Isaiah 7:22 βούτυρον And it shall come to pass from their drinking an abundance of milk, that every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.
About this word
About this word
βούτυρον (boútyron), “butter, curds,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 9 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →