Vine
גֶּ֫פֶןStrong’s H1612gephen (ge-phen)
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gephen is the Hebrew word usually translated “vine”, “own vine his” and “like vine”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.”
Meaning
- Vine, vine treeof Israel (fig.) · of stars fading at Jehovah's judgment (metaph.) · of prosperity
How it's translated
- the vine 11
- a vine 6
- vine 5
- own vine his 4
- like vine 4
- from vine of 3
- and vine 3
- vine their 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 7
- Ezekiel 6
- Psalms 5
- Jeremiah 5
- Song of Solomon 4
- Genesis 3
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 8:12In contextFor the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
- Genesis 40:9And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
- Genesis 40:10And 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:
- Genesis 49:11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
- Numbers 6:4All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
- Numbers 20:5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
All 53 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
גֶּ֫פֶן gephen · vine
1) vine, vine tree 1a) of Israel (fig.) 1b) of stars fading at Jehovah's judgment (metaph.) 1c) of prosperity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VINE, noun
[Latin vinca. See Wine.]
- A plant that produces grapes, of the genus Vitis, and of a great number of varieties.
- The long slender stem of any plant, that trails on the ground, or climbs and supports itself by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers.
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.