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# זָג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2085

**skin of a grape** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

skin of a grape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2085/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] name of some comparatively insignif. product of vine (גֶּפֶן הַיַּיִן), the eating of which was included in prohibition to Nazirite; skin of grape, so Thes (after Onk Mishna Maaser. 5 § 4, Orla 1 § 8, cf. Sifre ad loc.): מֵחַרְצַנִּים וְעַד־זָ֖ג לֹא יֹאכֵ֑ל Nu 6:4 (NH זג, זוג; so called as transparent? cf. Aramaic זְגוּגִיתָא, ܙܰܓܽܘܓܺܝܬܳܐ glass, NH זַגָּג glazier (Arabic زُجَاجٌ glass, is a loan-wd. according to Frä64); cf. theory of √ in LagGes Abh. 41, Fll.c.: but in Heb. glass is זְכוֹכִית).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: skin (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 6:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.4/#tree)

כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י נִזְר֑וֹ מִכֹּל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יֵעָשֶׂ֜ה מִגֶּ֣פֶן הַיַּ֗יִן מֵחַרְצַנִּ֛ים וְעַד־זָ֖ג לֹ֥א יֹאכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* all the.days his.consecration his from all that it.is.made from the.vine of the.wine from seeds and unto skin not he.will.eat

*JPS 1917:* All the days of his Naziriteship shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the pressed grapes even to the grapestone.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2085.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2085/): 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).