Cluster
אֶשְׁכּוֹלStrong’s H0811eshkol (esh-kol)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eshkol is the Hebrew word usually translated “clusters”, “clusters its” and “cluster of”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:”
Meaning
- Clusterof grapes · of flowers (metaphor of lover)
How it's translated
- clusters 2
- clusters its 1
- and a cluster of 1
- the cluster 1
- cluster of 1
- like clusters of 1
- in the cluster of grapes 1
- a cluster of grapes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 3
- Numbers 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
- Micah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 13:23And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Numbers 13:24The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
- Song of Solomon 1:14My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
- Song of Solomon 7:7This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
- Song of Solomon 7:8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Hebrew dictionary
אֶשְׁכּוֹל eshkol · cluster
1) cluster 1a) of grapes 1b) of flowers (metaphor of lover)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cluster” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLUSTER, noun
- A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a knot; as a cluster of raisins.
- A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body; as a cluster of bees; a cluster of people.
- A number of things situated near each other; as a cluster of governments in Italy.
All definitions and other forms of “cluster”
CLUSTER, verb intransitive
- To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch, or bunches; as, clustering grapes.
- To form into flakes; as, clustering snow.
- To collect into flocks or crowds.
CLUSTER, verb transitive
To collect into a bunch or close body.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.