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H3342 יֶקֶב (yeqeb) yeh'-keb
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from an unused root meaning to excavate; a trough (as dug out); specifically, a wine-vat (whether the lower one, into which the juice drains; or the upper, in which the grapes are crushed)

KJV Usage: fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

יֶ֫קֶב (ye.qev) — wine. wine vat, wine-press

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · יֶקֶב־זְאֵב

Constructions | Containers

wine vat = large container; ◄ normally hewn out of stone and part of a winepress; ► where the grape juice is collected

PRO 3:10 · JOL 2:24 · JOL 4:13 · HAG 2:16

Constructions | ≈ גֹּרֶן

winepress = a basin ◄ hewn out of a rock or lined with plaster ► into which harvested grapes were thrown and trampled to squeeze out the juice, which from there flowed into a trough or vat; ≈ treading a winepress is often used as a figure of speech to refer to God's anger and punishment

NUM 18:27 · NUM 18:30 · DEU 15:14 · DEU 16:13 · JDG 7:25 · 2KI 6:27 · JOB 24:11 · ISA 5:2 · ISA 16:10 · JER 48:33 · HOS 9:2 · ZEC 14:10

Reinier de Blois

noun m

Names of Constructions

winepress of Zeeb = winepress; ◄ named after Zeeb, chief of Midian

JDG 7:25

Reinier de Blois

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

יֶ֫קֶב n.m. wine-vat, sometimes also wine-press base

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