Dict: smith - BUTTER

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BUTTER - B>@ - Curdled milk. kjv@Genesis:18:8 kjv@Genesis:32:14; kjv@Judges:5:25; kjv@Job:20:17) Milk is generally offered to travellers in Palestine in a curdled or sour state, leben , thick, almost like butter. Hasselquist describes the method of making butter employed by the Arab women: "they made butter in a leather bag, hung on three poles erected for the purpose, in the form of a cone, and drawn to and fro by two women."