2001 Translation

GALA, gala

Sounds Like: GA-la

Translations: milk

From the root: ΓΑΛΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to milk, the nourishing fluid produced by mammals. It is often used literally to describe a food source, but can also be used metaphorically to represent basic or foundational teachings, especially in a spiritual context, as opposed to more solid food (meat) which represents deeper truths.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative. This noun is indeclinable in the singular, meaning its form does not change for different cases.

Strong’s number: G1051 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 6:8, 6:10, 6:13, 6:17

Codex Sinaiticus

• Numbers — 16:13, 16:14
• Judges — 5:25
• Psalms — 118:70
• Proverbs — 30:33
• Song of Solomon — 4:11
• Job — 10:10
• Sirach — 39:26, 46:8
• Isaiah — 7:22, 60:16
• Jeremiah — 11:5, 39:22
• Joel — 4:18
• 1 Corinthians — 3:2
• 1 Peter — 2:2
• Epistle of Barnabas — 6:8, 6:10, 6:13, 6:17

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 2:54
• Book 5 — 5:207

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 52:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 18:8, 49:12
• Exodus — 3:8, 3:17, 13:5, 33:3
• Leviticus — 20:24
• Numbers — 13:28, 14:8, 16:13, 16:14
• Deuteronomy — 6:3, 11:9, 26:9, 26:10, 26:15, 27:3, 31:20, 32:14
• Joshua — 5:6
• Judges — 5:25
• Nehemiah — 11:31
• 3 Maccabees — 5:49
• Psalms — 118:70
• Odes — 2:14
• Proverbs — 24:68
• Song of Solomon — 4:11
• Job — 10:10
• Sirach — 39:26, 46:8
• Isaiah — 7:22, 60:16
• Jeremiah — 11:5, 39:22
• Lamentations — 4:7
• Baruch — 1:20
• Ezekiel — 20:6, 20:15, 34:3
• Joel — 3:18

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• 1 Corinthians — 3:2
• 1 Peter — 2:2

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΑΛΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΓΑΛΑΙ — milk, a milk, (to) milk
• ΓΑΛΑΚΤ — milk, of milk
• ΓΑΛΑΚΤΙ — to milk, for milk, with milk, in milk
• ΓΑΛΑΚΤΟΣ — of milk, milk
• ΓΑΛΑΣ — milk, a milk

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