גבינה

From the same root as Arabic جُبْن (jubn, “cheese”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡviˈna/

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גְּבִינָה • (g'viná) f (plural indefinite גְּבִינוֹת, singular construct גְּבִינַת־, plural construct גְּבִינוֹת־) [pattern: קְטִילָה]

1. (uncountable) cheese
   • Tanach, Job 10:10, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     הֲלֹא כֶחָלָב תַּתִּיכֵנִי וְכַגְּבִנָּה תַּקְפִּיאֵנִי׃

     Ha-ló khe-ḥaláv tatikhéni; v-kha-gviná taqpi'éni?

     Hast Thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?

   • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah. Nedarim, section 6.5:

     הַנּוֹדֵר מִן הַגְּבִינָה, אָסוּר בָּהּ בֵּין מְלוּחָה בֵּין טְפֵלָה:

     Ha-nodér min ha-gviná, asúr bah bein mluḥá bein tfelá.

     When one vows to abstain from cheese, it is forbidden whether salted or unsalted.

   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Avodah Zarah, 29a:

     עֲשָׂרָה דְּבָרִים מַחֲזִירִין אֶת הַחוֹלֶה לְחׇלְיוֹ וְחׇלְיוֹ קָשֶׁה אֵלּוּ הֵן: הָאוֹכֵל בְּשַׂר שׁוֹר, שֶׁמֶן, בָּשָׂר צָלִי, בְּשַׂר צִפֳּרִים, וּבֵיצָה צְלוּיָה, וְשַׁחֲלַיִם, וְתַגְלַחַת, וּמֶרְחָץ, וּגְבִינָה, וְכָבֵד, וְיֵשׁ אֹמְרִים אַף אֱגוֹזִים, וְיֵשׁ אֹמְרִים אַף קִשּׁוּאִין.

     'Asará dvarím maḥazirín et ha-ḥolé l-ḥolyó v-ḥolyo qashé élu hen: ha-okhél b'sar shor, shémen, basár tsalí, b'sar tsiporím, u-veitsá tsluyá, v-shaḥaláyim, v-tagláḥat, u-merḥats, u-gviná, v-khavéd, v-yesh omrím af egozím, v-yesh omrím af qisshu'ín.

     Ten things return the sick man to his sickness, and his sickness gets worse. These are they: eating the meat of an ox, fat, roast meat, bird meat, and a laid egg, and cress, and shaving, and bathing, and cheese, and liver, and some say also nuts, and some say also cucumbers.

• “גבינה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• H1385 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• גבינה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he