Lexical Definition

‎γάλα‎ gála (gal'-ah) milk ^G:N-N
of uncertain affinity

milk.

• milk (figuratively)

Abbott-Smith

γάλα, -ακτος, τό [in LXX for חלב ;]
milk: I Co 9:7. Metaph., of elementary Christian teaching: I Co 3:2, He 5:12, 13; τὸ λογικὸν ἄδολον γ., the rational (spiritual) genuine milk (v. Hort, in l.), I Pe 2:2 (in support of AV, milk of the word, v. ICC, in l.).†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

γάλα [??], τό,

genitive γάλακτος (also γάλακος, dative γάλακι [γάλα">Refs 5th c.BC+] indeclinable, [γάλαξι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 887d. (For γλακτ-">Refs 5th c.BC+], cf. Latin lac for glact):—milk, ἀμελγόμενοι γ. λευκόν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εὔποτον γ., εὐτραφὲς γ., [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν γάλακτι ὤν, τεθραμμένη, at the breast, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν γάλαξι τρέφεσθαι [γάλαξιν εἶναι, of art, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 8.8); διδόναι γάλα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 7.4 ">Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμπλῆσαι γάλακτος to fill full of milk, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 ὀρνίθων γ. (ὄρνιθος γάλα, ={ὀρνιθόγαλον}, [Refs 5th c.BC+] as white of egg, compare [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 ἀγαθὸν γ. a good wet-nurse, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; οὐδ᾽ εἰ γ. λαγοῦ εἶχον.. καὶ ταὧς, κατήσθιον [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II milky sap of plants, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III the milky way, [γάλακτος κύκλος 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra “Phaenomena” p.4M., 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 5.69. ">Refs 4th c.BC+]