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# גַּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1660

**wine-press** — used 5 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

wine-press [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1660/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּת³: n.f. wine-press [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1660/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wine-press (contracted from גַּנְתְּ = יְגַנְתְּ)—abs. גַּת Ju 6:11 + 3 times; גִּתּוֹת Ne 13:15;—wine-press, lit. חֹבֵט חִטִּים בַּגַּת Ju 6:11 beating out wheat in the wine-press, to hide it from Midian; the juice of the grapes was pressed out by treading, דֹּרֵךְ בְּג֑ת Is 63:2 (in sim.), but also as acc. דֹּרְכִים גִּתּוֹת Ne 13:15; in fig. of judgment, גַּת דָּרַךְ אֲדֹנָי לִבְתוּלַת וגו׳ La 1:15 a wine-press hath Adonay trodden for the virgin daughter of Judah; also רְדוּ כִּי מָֽלְאָה גַּת Jo 4:13 (רדה only here with גַּת).—On the form and use of wine-press, and Heb. synonyms, v. Smith DB (art. wine-press) BenzArch.. 212 f. RobBR iii, 137 Schick ZPV x, 1887, 146, 150, and Pl. v. vii. Anderlind ZPV xi, 1888, 166 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a winepress (2); \[the\] winepress (1); winepress (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 63:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.2/#tree)

מַדּ֥וּעַ אָדֹ֖ם לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ וּבְגָדֶ֖יךָ כְּדֹרֵ֥ךְ בְּגַֽת׃

*Word for word:* why? \[does\].redness \[belong\].to clothing your and.\[are\] garments? your like \[one.who\].treads in a.winepress

*JPS 1917:* 'Wherefore is Thine apparel red, and Thy garments like his that treadeth in the winevat?' —

[Joel 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.13/#tree)

שִׁלְח֣וּ מַגָּ֔ל כִּ֥י בָשַׁ֖ל קָצִ֑יר בֹּ֤אֽוּ רְדוּ֙ כִּֽי־מָ֣לְאָה גַּ֔ת הֵשִׁ֙יקוּ֙ הַיְקָבִ֔ים כִּ֥י רַבָּ֖ה רָעָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* send.out \[the\].sickle (dm) it.has.grown.ripe \[the\].harvest come tread (dm) it.is.full \[the\].winepress they.are.overflowing the wine-vats (dm) \[is\].great evil their

*JPS 1917:* Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, tread ye, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1660.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1660/): 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).