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# יֶקֶב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3342

**wine-vat** — used 15 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-vat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3342/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֶ֫קֶב: n.m. wine-vat wine-press [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3342/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 3:10 wine-vat (a trough or hollow excavated (חצב Is 5:2) in the rock for receiving the juice trodden out in the גַּת: Benz212 f.), sometimes also wine-press (the trough in which the grapes were trodden out);—abs. יֶ֫קֶב Is 5:2 + 4 times; יָ֑קֶב Nu 18:30; cstr. יֶ֫קֶב Ju 7:25; sf. יִקְבֶ֑ךָ Dt 15:14; 16:13; pl. יְקָבִים Jb 24:11 + 4 times; יִקְבֵי Zc 14:10; יְקָבֶיךָ Pr 3:10;—wine-vat, Is 5:2 Hg 2:16 Jo 4:13 (‖ גַּת), Pr 3:10; often ‖ גֹּרֶן, Nu 18:27, 30 Dt 15:14; 16:13 2 K 6:27 Ho 9:2 Jo 2:24; appar. of the wine-press Jb 24:11 יְקָבִים דָּֽרְכוּ, Is 16:10 (hence Je 48:33). Designating particular localities, Ju 7:25 יֶקֶב זְאֵב, Zc 14:10 יִקְבֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ (near Jerusalem).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: winepress (5); wine-vats (4); winepresses (2).

## In the verses

[Job 24:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.11/#tree)

בֵּין־שׁוּרֹתָ֥ם יַצְהִ֑ירוּ יְקָבִ֥ים דָּ֝רְכ֗וּ וַיִּצְמָֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* between rows their they.press.out.oil winepresses they.tread and they.were.thirsty

*JPS 1917:* They make oil within the rows of these men; they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

[Proverbs 3:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.10/#tree)

וְיִמָּלְא֣וּ אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ שָׂבָ֑ע וְ֝תִיר֗וֹשׁ יְקָבֶ֥יךָ יִפְרֹֽצוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* so that.they.may.be.filled barns your plenty and new.wine wine-vats your they.will.burst.open

*JPS 1917:* So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3342.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3342/): 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).