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Strong's G1051 γάλα (gala)

Gala means “milk” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1051 — beythrapha in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1051
Language Greek
Linked Usages 51
Books 22

Strong's G1051 Quick Answer

Strong's G1051 γάλα (gala) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. gala (gal'-ah) n. 1. (figuratively) milk [of uncertain affinity] It has 51 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include milk. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
gala (gal'-ah) n. 1. (figuratively) milk [of uncertain affinity]
Usage
51 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
milk

Meaning and Definition

gala (gal'-ah) n. 1. (figuratively) milk [of uncertain affinity] KJV: milk

Original Word
γάλα
Transliteration
gala
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1051. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

milk

Usage: γάλα, -ακτος, τό [in LXX for חלב ;] milk: 1Co.9:7. Metaphorical, of elementary Christian teaching: 1Co.3:2, Heb.5:12, 13; τὸ λογικὸν ἄδολον γ., the rational (spiritual) genuine milk (see Hort, in l.), 1Pe.2:2 (in support of AV, milk of the word, see ICC, in l.).† (AS)

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How Strong's G1051 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gala, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's G1051 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 42 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1051 (γάλα) appears 46 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1051 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1051 in the New Testament

5 indexed usages in New Testament.

1 Corinthians 3:2 KJV

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

1 Corinthians 9:7 KJV

Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

Hebrews 5:12 KJV

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Strong's G1051 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

42 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 18:8 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Genesis 49:12 Septuagint / Brenton

His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, And his teeth whiter than milk.

Exodus 3:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.

Strong's G1051 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

3 Maccabees 5:49 Septuagint / Brenton

thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.

Wisdom of Sirach 39:26 Septuagint / Brenton

The principal things for the whole use of man’s life Are water, fire, iron, and salt, Flour of wheat, honey, milk, And the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

Wisdom of Sirach 46:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved To bring them into the heritage, Even unto the land that floweth with milk and honey.

Usage Excerpts

First 51 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1051.

Genesis 18:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Genesis 49:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, And his teeth whiter than milk.
Exodus 3:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites, and Amorites and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 13:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and Perizzites, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month.
Exodus 23:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt bring the first offerings of the firstfruits of thy land into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a lamb in its mother’s milk.
Exodus 33:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring thee into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee by the way.
Exodus 34:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The firstfruits of thy land shalt thou put into the house of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother’s milk.
Leviticus 20:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, even a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people.
Numbers 13:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which thou sentest us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Numbers 14:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Numbers 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is it a little thing that thou hast brought us up to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, and that thou altogether rulest over us?
Numbers 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou art a prince, and hast thou brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and hast thou given us an inheritance of land and vineyards? wouldest thou have put out the eyes of those men? we will not go up.
Deuteronomy 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers said that he would give thee a land flowing with milk and honey: and these are the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 11:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that ye may live long upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 14:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 26:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought us into this place, and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the land, which thou gavest me, O Lord, a land flowing with milk and honey: and thou shalt leave it before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt worship before the Lord thy God;
Deuteronomy 26:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Look down from thy holy house, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given them, as thou didst swear to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 27:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt write on these stones all the words of this law, as soon as ye have crossed Jordan, when ye are entered into the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers gives thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, according as the Lord God of thy fathers said to thee.
Deuteronomy 31:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I will bring them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my covenant.
Deuteronomy 32:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Joshua 5:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord swore to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk and honey.
Judges 4:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Sisera said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty: and she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him.
Judges 5:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; She brought butter of princes.
Job 10:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hast thou not poured me out like milk, And curdled me like cheese?
Job 29:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When my ways were moistened with butter, And the mountains flowed for me with milk.
Psalms 118:70 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their heart has been curdled like milk; But I have meditated on thy law.
Proverbs 30:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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
Song of Solomon 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is as the smell of Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 5:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let my kinsman come down into his garden, And eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; Yea, brethren, drink abundantly.
Song of Solomon 5:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, Washed with milk, Sitting by the pools.
Isaiah 7:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass from their drinking an abundance of milk, that everyone that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.
Isaiah 28:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.
Isaiah 60:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt eat the wealth of kings: and shalt know that I am the Lord that saves thee and delivers thee, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that I may confirm mine oath, which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.
Jeremiah 39:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Lamentations 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her Nazirites were made purer than snow, They were whiter than milk, They were purified as with fire, Their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.
Ezekiel 20:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in that day I helped them with my hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land.
Ezekiel 20:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands:
Ezekiel 34:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep.
Joel 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the fountains of Judah shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the Valley of Flags.
1 Corinthians 3:2 New Testament, KJV
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
1 Corinthians 9:7 New Testament, KJV
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 5:12 New Testament, KJV
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Hebrews 5:13 New Testament, KJV
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
1 Peter 2:2 New Testament, KJV
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 Maccabees 5:49 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.
Wisdom of Sirach 39:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The principal things for the whole use of man’s life Are water, fire, iron, and salt, Flour of wheat, honey, milk, And the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.
Wisdom of Sirach 46:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved To bring them into the heritage, Even unto the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Baruch 1:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore the evils clove unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1051, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1051 FAQ

What does gala (γάλα) mean?

Gala (Strong's G1051) is a Greek word most simply glossed "milk". gala (gal'-ah) n. 1. (figuratively) milk [of uncertain affinity]

How many times is gala (γάλα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 51 linked usages for Strong's G1051 across 22 books.

Where can I study gala (γάλα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1051 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate gala (γάλα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as milk. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1051 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 42 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1051, with linked reader references where each row is available.