Bible Dictionary: Cream

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

2. (n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.

3. (n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

4. (n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.

5. (n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.

6. (v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

7. (v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of.

8. (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream.

9. (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.

Strong's Hebrew

8194. shaphah -- perhaps cream
... 8193, 8194. shaphah. 8195 . perhaps cream. Transliteration: shaphah Phonetic
Spelling: (shaw-faw') Short Definition: cheese. Word ...
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Library

A Spirit Illumined Mind.
... She will spend hours chewing the cud, and then give us the rich milk and
cream and butter which she has extracted from her food. ...
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we have not only so high a pattern, but so excellent a motive
... It is a bond of perfection, as it were, a bundle of graces, and chain of virtues,
even the very cream and flower of many graces combined. ...
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From John Yeardley's Conversion to the Commencement of his Public ...
... His parents, Joel and Frances Yeardley, farmed some land, chiefly pasture, and his
mother is said to have been famous for her cream-cheeses, which she carried ...
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Love
... Matthew 10:37. We may give the creature the milk of our love, but God must have
the cream. The spouse keeps the juice of her pomegranates for Christ. ...
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Conflicts with Giant Mistake
... Over there on the left of Love is a group of flowers of different species.
That large cream-colored flower is called Patience. That ...
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Hymn Before Meat
... Foaming milkpails bubble o'er With the udders' snowy stream, Which in thickening
churns we pour Or in wicker baskets store, As the cheese is pressed from cream ...
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Preface
... details of some one incident. The prologue is a miniature Bible. The whole
Bible story is there in its cream. And on the other hand ...
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A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising
... It is his excellence. When the milk is settled it turns to cream; now he will be
zealous for the truth, and walk in close communion with God. And his honour. ...
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The Battle of the Books, 1749-1755.
... minutes of German Synods; and here the Brethren showed what they meant by such phrases
as "Sinnership" and "Blood and Wounds Theology." But the cream of the ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter xiii the battle of.htm

Joy
... Holy Ghost. Joy is setting the soul upon the top of a pinnacle - it is
the cream of the sincere milk of the word. Spiritual joy ...
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Thesaurus

Cream (5 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or
so as to resemble cream. 4. (n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. ...
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Butter (10 Occurrences)
... (Hebrews hemah), curdled milk (Genesis 18:8; Judges 5:25; 2 Samuel 17:29), or butter
in the form of the skim of hot milk or cream, called by the Arabs kaimak ...
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Churn (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated
(as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules ...
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Create (15 Occurrences)

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Whip (7 Occurrences)
... as, to whip wheat. 6. (vt) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth,
as with a whisk, fork, or the like. 7. (vt) To conquer ...
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Ice (20 Occurrences)
... ice floats. 2. (n.) Concreted sugar. 3. (n.) Water, cream, custard, etc.,
sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen. 4. (n.) Any ...
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Fool (95 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and
crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool. ...
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Fleet (7 Occurrences)
... the Fleet (now filled up). 13. (vi) To take the cream from; to skim.
Multi-Version Concordance Fleet (7 Occurrences). 1 Kings 9:26 ...
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Raised (267 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as
distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, vt, 4. ...
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Rich (140 Occurrences)
... of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or
are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup ...
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Bible Concordance

Cream (5 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 32:14 Cream of kine, and milk of sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink pure wine, the blood of the grape.
(DBY)

2 Samuel 17:29 and honey, and cream, and sheep, and cheese of kine to David, and to the people that were with him, to eat; for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.
(DBY)

Job 20:17 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
(See NIV)

Job 29:6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
(See NIV)

Psalms 55:21 His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
(See JPS)

Subtopics

Cream

Related Terms

Butter (10 Occurrences)

Churn (1 Occurrence)

Create (15 Occurrences)

Whip (7 Occurrences)

Ice (20 Occurrences)

Fool (95 Occurrences)