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# אֶשְׁכֹּל

Biblical Hebrew

**Eshcol** — used 4 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

Eshcol [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b9_5bc_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶשְׁכֹּל: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b9_5bc_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. m. an Amorite, brother of Mamre, dwelling in neighbourhood of Hebron Gn 14:13, 24. in combination נַחַל אֶשְׁכֹּל Nu 13:23 Dt 1:24; נ׳ אֶשְׁכּוֹל Nu 13:24, 32:9;—valley of Eshcol, = valley of a cluster, region of Hebron (cf. 13:22); in 13:24 der. from א׳ cluster, q.v.; see however Di ad loc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: of Eshcol (4).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 1:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.24/#tree)

וַיִּפְנוּ֙ וַיַּעֲל֣וּ הָהָ֔רָה וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ עַד־נַ֣חַל אֶשְׁכֹּ֑ל וַֽיְרַגְּל֖וּ אֹתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.turned and they.went.up to the.hill country and they.came to the.wadi of.Eshcol and they.spied.out it

*JPS 1917:* and they turned and went up into the mountains, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

[Numbers 13:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.24/#tree)

לַמָּק֣וֹם הַה֔וּא קָרָ֖א נַ֣חַל אֶשְׁכּ֑וֹל עַ֚ל אֹד֣וֹת הָֽאֶשְׁכּ֔וֹל אֲשֶׁר־כָּרְת֥וּ מִשָּׁ֖ם בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* (to) the place (the) that someone.called the.wadi of.Eshcol on the.causes of the.cluster.of.grapes which they.cut.down from there the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence. —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b9_5bc_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b9_5bc_5dc/): 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).