chem.ah denotes a milk-based food, set out for eating, given as provision, and pictured as produced from milk.

The term denotes a milk-based food in settings of meals and provisions: it is set before guests, supplied to hungry people, and paired with milk or honey. It also appears in images of abundance and in the statement that pressing milk produces this food.

1. Milk-based food for eating and provision · dominant

   The feminine singular noun names an item set before guests with milk and a prepared calf in Genesis 18:8, and an item supplied with other foods for hungry and thirsty people in 2 Samuel 17:29. In Judges 5:25 the APB renders the clause "she brought him curds in a lordly bowl," while Proverbs 30:33 places the noun in the statement that pressing milk produces it.

   Genesis 18:82 Samuel 17:29Judges 5:25Deuteronomy 32:14Isaiah 7:22Proverbs 30:33

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB generally presents the term as "curds," including in meal, provision, and abundance contexts; Job 20:17 has the singular "curd." These renderings confirm the verse-level context rather than establish finer distinctions.