Wine press
גַּתStrong’s H1660gat
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gat is the Hebrew word usually translated “winepress” and “winepresses”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.”
Meaning
- Winepress, wine vat
How it's translated
- in the winepress 1
- winepresses 1
- in a winepress 1
- a winepress 1
- winepress 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
- Joel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 13:15In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
- Isaiah 63:2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
- Lamentations 1:15The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
- Joel 3:13Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Hebrew dictionary
גַּת gat · wine press
winepress, wine vat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “winepress” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINE-PRESS, noun
[wine and press.]
A place where grapes are pressed.
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.