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# אֶשְׁכּוֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H811

**cluster** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cluster [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/811/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶשְׁכּוֹל: n.m. cluster [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/811/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (אֶשְׁכֹּל Ct 1:14) n.m. Nu 13:23 cluster (Ethiopic አስካል Arabic إِثْكَالٌ, Aramaic אִיתְכְּלָא; etym. dub.; Thes MV sub √שׁכל, but no suitable meaning proven; Sta§ 258, 300 der. from √ אשׁך c. afformat. ל)—א׳ abs. Nu 13:24 +; cstr. v 23 +; pl. אַשְׁכֹּלוֹת Ct 7:8; cstr. אַשְׁכְּלֹת Dt 32:32, אֶשְׁכְּלוֹת Ct 7:9; sf. אַשְׁכְּלֹתֶיהָ Gn 40:10;— cluster of grapes, א׳ עֲנָבִים Nu 13:23 cf. v 24; vid. also Gn 40:10 הִבְשִׁילוּ א׳ עֲנָבִים its clusters ripened grapes; hence fig. of deeds of enemies of Israel, clusters of gall have they Dt 32:32 (‖ עִנְּבֵי רוֹשׁ); fig. of Isr. Is 65:8 יִמָּצֵא הַתִּירוֹשׁ בָּא׳; Mi 7:1 אֵין אֶשְׁכּוֹל לֶאֱכוֹל fig. of desolation of Israel under Yahweh’s judgment; Ct 7:9 in sim. שָׁדַיִךְ כְּאֶשְׁכְּלוֹת הַגֶּפֶן cf. v 8 (where Thes MV think of clusters of dates, v. תָּמָר palm-tree, ib.) cluster of henna-flowers, א׳ הַכֹּפֶר (v. כפר), metaph. of the beloved one Ct 1:14. (Cf. GrünwaldIsrael. Letterbode, Amst., xi, 148 f.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: clusters (3); \[is\] (the) cluster (1); a cluster (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.8/#tree)

זֹ֤את קֽוֹמָתֵךְ֙ דָּֽמְתָ֣ה לְתָמָ֔ר וְשָׁדַ֖יִךְ לְאַשְׁכֹּלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* this stature your it.is.like (to).a palm.tree and breasts your (to) clusters

*JPS 1917:* This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

[Song of Songs 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.14/#tree)

אֶשְׁכֹּ֨ל הַכֹּ֤פֶר ׀ דּוֹדִי֙ לִ֔י בְּכַרְמֵ֖י עֵ֥ינ גֶּֽדִי עֵ֥ינ גֶּֽדִי׃ס

*Word for word:* \[is\].(the).cluster of.(the) henna.blossom lover my to me in the.vineyards of En.Gedi

*JPS 1917:* My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna in the vineyards of En-gedi.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/811.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/811/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).