Wine
יֶ֫קֶבStrong’s H3342yeqev (ye-qev)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeqev is the Hebrew word usually translated “wine-press”, “from wine-press your” and “wine-vats”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.”
Meaning
- Wine vat, wine-press
How it's translated
- the wine-press 2
- and from wine-press your 2
- the wine-vats 2
- a wine-press 1
- at winepress of 1
- wine-presses 1
- wine vats your 1
- a wine-vat 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 2
- Joel 2
- Judges 1
- 2 Kings 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 18:27And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
- Numbers 18:30Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
- Deuteronomy 15:14Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
- Deuteronomy 16:13Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
- Judges 7:25And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
- 2 Kings 6:27And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
Hebrew dictionary
יֶ֫קֶב yeqev · wine
wine vat, wine-press
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINE, noun
[Gr.]
- The fermented juice of grapes; as the wine of the Madeira grape; the wine of Burgundy or Oporto.
- The juice of certain fruits, prepared with sugar, spirits, etc.; as currant wine; gooseberry wine
- Intoxication.“Noah awoke from his wine” Genesis 9:24
- Drinking.“They that tarry long at the wine” Proverbs 23:30
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.