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# כָּרַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3755

**tend vineyards** — 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

tend vineyards [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3755/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּרַם: vb.denom. tend vineyards, dress vines [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3755/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. tend vineyards, dress vines, only Pt. pl. vinedressers כֹּרְמִים 2 K 25:12 = Je 52:16 (‖ יֹגְבִים), Jo 1:11; 2 Ch 26:10 (both ‖ אִכָּרִים), כֹּרְמֵיכֶם Is 61:5 (‖ id.)

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: vinedressers (4); O vinedressers (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 25:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.12/#tree)

וּמִדַּלַּ֣ת הָאָ֔רֶץ הִשְׁאִ֖יר רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים לְכֹֽרְמִ֖ים וּלְיֹגְבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and some of.the.poor of the.land he.left.behind \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards to vinedressers and to husbandmen

*JPS 1917:* But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

[Joel 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.11/#tree)

הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ אִכָּרִ֗ים הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ כֹּֽרְמִ֔ים עַל־חִטָּ֖ה וְעַל־שְׂעֹרָ֑ה כִּ֥י אָבַ֖ד קְצִ֥יר שָׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* be.ashamed O.farmers wail O.vinedressers on \[the\].wheat and on \[the\].barley (dm) it.has.perished \[the\].harvest of.\[the\].field

*JPS 1917:* Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3755.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3755/): 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).