יֶ֫קֶב
ye.qev
“wine”
Definition
a trough (as dug out); specifically, a wine-vat (whether the lower one, into which the juice drains; or the upper, in which the grapes are crushed)
from an unused root meaning to excavate;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
יֶ֫קֶב appears 15 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
He dug it up and cleared the stonesand planted the finest vines.He built a watchtower in the middleand dug out a winepress as well.He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes,but the fruit it produced was sour!
They crush olives within their walls;they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
Therefore say to the Levites, ‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.
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