Vine
שֹׂרֵקStrong’s H8321soreq (so-req)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Soreq is the Hebrew word usually translated “choice vine”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Binding 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:”
Meaning
- Choice species of vine, choice grapes
- Choice vine
How it's translated
- a choice vine 2
- and to the choice vine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 5:2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
- Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Hebrew dictionary
שֹׂרֵק soreq · vine
choice species of vine, choice grapes Also means: so.re.qah (שֹׂרֵקָה "vine" H8321B)
שֹׂרֵקָה soreqah · vine
choice vine Another spelling of so.req (שֹׂרֵק "vine" H8321A)
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.