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# butter

«butter» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a soft, yellow food made from cream, which people spread…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (butter, uncountable); verb (butter, butters, buttered, buttering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Butter is a soft, yellow food made from cream, which people spread on bread or use in cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#m1)

2) To butter something means to spread butter on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#m2)

3) Peanut butter and other «butters» are smooth spreads made from crushed nuts or seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Butter in the Bible is often made from the milk of cows or sheep. It was a sign of rich food and plenty. Interpretation: Job remembers his past blessing as a time when his path ran with butter and oil. The tradition reads this as a picture of God's abundance in a good life. In the primary lessons: In cooking lessons butter is used in cakes, biscuits and sauces; it melts when warm and goes hard in the fridge, which is a good example of melting and solidifying in science. Butter is made by churning (shaking or stirring) cream until the fat sticks together. In health lessons butter is a fat, so it is eaten in small amounts. Phrases: bread and butter, peanut butter, butter up (to flatter), butterfingers (someone who drops things).

### examples

- When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil! (Writings JOB.29.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x1)
- Spread some butter on your toast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x2)
- Mum buttered the bread for our sandwiches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x3)
- Butter melts in a hot pan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x4)
- We made butter at school by shaking cream in a jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x5)
- Keep the butter in the fridge so it stays fresh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x6)
- I'm allergic to peanuts, so I can't eat peanut butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x7)
- You need butter, sugar, flour and eggs to make a cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x8)
- Oops, butterfingers! You dropped the ball again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x9)
- “Curly is taking both butter and honey.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/#x10)

### note

Uncountable: some butter, a piece of butter (not «a butter»). Butter is made from milk, so people with a milk allergy cannot eat it. Do not use butter on burns; that is a myth — cool a burn with cool running water instead.

### In the corpora

- [When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.729/)
- [Mice prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods to cheese, so peanut butter works better in humane traps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/8/)
- [Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods, so people baiting traps usually use peanut butter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/9/)
- [The March Hare dips it in his tea and gloomily repeats that it was the best butter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/6/)
- [The first witness is the Hatter, still holding his teacup and bread-and-butter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «butter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.