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Honey occurs with the adjective agrios, "wild," in Mat 3:4, Mar 1:6; in Rev 1:10-10, as an example of sweetness. As "honey" is liable to ferment, it was precluded from offerings to God, Lev 2:11. The liquid "h...

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Honey <1,,3192, meli>

occurs with the adjective agrios, "wild," in Mat 3:4, Mar 1:6; in Rev 1:10-10, as an example of sweetness. As "honey" is liable to ferment, it was precluded from offerings to God, Lev 2:11. The liquid "honey" mentioned in Psa 19:10, Pro 16:24 is regarded as the best; a cruse of it was part of the present brought to Ahijah by Jeroboam's wife, 1Ki 14:3.

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