Cluster
צַמּוּקStrong’s H6778tsammuq (tsam-muq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsammuq is the Hebrew word usually translated “bunches of raisins”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.”
Meaning
- Bunch of raisins, raisin-bunch
How it's translated
- bunches of raisins 3
- and bunches of raisins 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 30:12And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
- 2 Samuel 16:1And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
צַמּוּק tsammuq · cluster
bunch of raisins, raisin-bunch
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.