honeycomb

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Bees numerous and honey plentiful in Palestine

Much used (Lev. 20:24²⁴But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. (Leviticus 20:24); Deut. 32:13¹³He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; (Deuteronomy 32:13); Matt. 3:4⁴And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:4)).

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Honey

This was so plentiful in Palestine, that the country was often described as a land “flowing with milk and honey” (Ex. 3:8,17⁸And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Exodus 3:8)
¹⁷And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. (Exodus 3:17)). It is symbolical of what is sweet in nature; to be partaken of with discretion, lest it cause vomiting (Prov. 25:16,27¹⁶Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. (Proverbs 25:16)
²⁷It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. (Proverbs 25:27)). It was strictly forbidden to add honey to the offerings of the Lord made by fire (Lev. 2:11¹¹No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire. (Leviticus 2:11)). What is of nature, though it be sweetness, can have no place in what is offered to God. The Lord Jesus when in service on earth said to His mother, “Woman, what have I to do with thee?” though when His service was over He commended her to John.

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Honeycomb

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

5317 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

nopheth

Phonic:

no’-feth

Meaning:

from 5130 in the sense of shaking to pieces; a dripping i.e. of honey (from the comb)

KJV Usage:

honeycomb