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אֶשְׁכֹּל

ʼEshkôl · H812 · Hebrew · proper noun · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. cluster

    Group of flowers or fruits positioned on one stem

    Examples

    Numbers 13:23 Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and from there they cut off a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

    Numbers 13:24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut off from there.

  2. Eshcol

    An Amorite man, brother of Mamre and Aner and an ally of Abram

    Examples

    Genesis 14:13 Then a survivor came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was residing by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and they were allies with Abram.

    Genesis 14:24 “I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their share.”

  3. Eshcol

    A valley located near Hebron, where Israelite spies cut off a large cluster of grapes

    Examples

    Numbers 13:23 Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and from there they cut off a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

    Numbers 13:24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut off from there.

    Numbers 32:9 “For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the sons of Israel so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

How it’s used In 1 role

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

the word studied the word it goes with

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 2 groups

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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Semantic domains 3 entries
Plants001002007001
This entry carries no independent plant sense of its own beyond the valley's own name; its citations are the personal name (Genesis 14:13, 24) and the Valley of Eshcol named for the grape cluster cut there (Numbers 13:23-24; 32:9; Deuteronomy 1:24). The common-noun sense for the fruit itself belongs to the related form אֶשְׁכּוֹל (ʼeshkôwl, H811) (see that entry).
Names of People003001007
אֶשְׁכֹּל (Eshcol) is a personal name, one of Abram's allies alongside Mamre and Aner (Genesis 14:13, 24, "the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner").
Names of Landforms003001008
The same name also designates the Valley of Eshcol, named for the cluster of grapes the spies cut there (Numbers 13:23-24; Deuteronomy 1:24).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H812. Eshkol אֶשְׁכֹּל proper name 1. masculine an Amorite, brother of Mamre, dwelling in…
H812. Eshkol
אֶשְׁכֹּל proper name
1. masculine an Amorite, brother of Mamre, dwelling in neighbourhood of Hebron Gen 14:13, Gen 14:24.
2 in combination אֶשְׁכֹּל נַחַל Num 13:23; Deu 1:24; ׳נ אֶשְׁכּוֺל Num 13:24; Num 32:9; — valley of Eshcol, = valley of a cluster, region of Hebron (compare Num 13:22); in Num 13:24 derived from ׳א cluster, q. v.; see however Di on the passage

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

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