Word

יֶקֶב

yeqeb · H3342 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences

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Wine pressAgriculture and farming27 verses

Meanings

wine vat

A large container, normally hewn out of stone and part of a winepress, where the grape juice is collected

Examples
Proverbs 3:10 Then your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
Joel 2:24 The threshing floors will be full of grain, And the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil.
Joel 3:13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread the grapes, for the wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
winepress

A basin hewn out of a rock or lined with plaster, into which harvested grapes were thrown and trampled to squeeze out the juice, which then flowed into a trough or vat; treading a winepress is often a figure of speech for God's anger and punishment

Examples
Numbers 18:27 ‘Your offering shall be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.
Numbers 18:30 “And you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be credited to the Levites like the product of the threshing floor, and like the product of the wine vat.
Deuteronomy 15:14 “You shall give generously to him from your flock, your threshing floor, and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 2 groups

ךָyour 3
מֶלֶךְking 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

שׁוּקto irrigate 2
פָּרַץto burst 1
רָעָהto shepherd, to feed, to graze 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

דָּרַךְto tread, to bend (a bow) 1
חָצַבto hew 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 4 groups

מִןfrom 6
אֵלto, toward 2
בin/on/with 2
עַדto, as far as, until 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

תְּבוּאָהyield 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

ληνός lēnós · G3025 · wine press: Greek ληνός specifically denotes the vat or trough component of winepress apparatus, whereas Hebrew יֶקֶב encompasses the broader conceptual range of wine/olive press installations including both the crushing surface and the collecting vat.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Constructions001003002: יֶקֶב denotes a built winepress or vat, an agricultural installation for pressing grapes.
Containers001003001001003: יֶקֶב also functions as a container for collected wine or must, the vat holding what flows from the press, credited to the Levites like the produce of the threshing floor (Numbers 18:27, 30).
Names of Constructions003001003: יֶקֶב can further specify a particular named winepress structure as a distinct built feature.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3342. yeqeb יֶ֫קֶב noun masculinePro 3:10 wine-vat (a trough or hollow excavated (חצב…

H3342. yeqeb
יֶ֫קֶב noun masculinePro 3:10 wine-vat (a trough or hollow excavated (חצב Isa 5:2) in the rock for receiving the juice trodden out in the גַּת: Benz212f.), sometimes also wine-press (the trough in which the grapes were trodden out); — absolute יֶ֫קֶב Isa 5:2 Isa 5:4t.; יָ֑קֶב Num 18:30; construct י֫קֶב ֶ Jdg 7:25; suffix יִקְבֶ֑ךָ Deu 15:14; Deu 16:13; plural יְקָבִּים Job 24:11 Job 24:4t.; יִקְבֵּי Zec 14:10; יְקָבֶיךָ Pro 3:10; — wine- vat, Isa 5:2; Hag 2:16; Joel 4:13 (|| גַּת), Pro 3:10; often || גֹּרֶן, Num 18:27, Num 18:30; Deu 15:14; Deu 16:13; 2Ki 6:27; Hos 9:2; Joe 2:24; apparently of the wine-press Job 24:11 דָּֽרְכוּ יְקָבִים, Isa 16:10n (hence Jer 48:33). Designating particular localities, Jdg 7:25 זְאֵב יֶקֶב, Zec 14:10 הַמֶּלֶךְ יִקְבֵי (near Jerusalem).
יְקַבְצְאֵל see below קבץ.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Constructions15 occurrences Names of Constructions0 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0