Lexical Summary yeqeb: wine vat Original Word: יֶקֶבTransliteration: yeqeb Phonetic Spelling: (yeh'-keb) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: wine vat Meaning: a trough, a wine-vat Strong's Concordance fats, presses, press-fat, winepress 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) -- fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press). Brown-Driver-Briggs H3342. yeqeb יֶ֫קֶב noun masculineProverbs 3:10 wine-vat (a trough or hollow excavated (חצב Isaiah 5:2) in the rock for receiving the juice trodden out in the גַּת: Benz212f.), sometimes also wine-press (the trough in which the grapes were trodden out); — absolute יֶ֫קֶב 5:2 4t.; יָ֑קֶב Numbers 18:30; construct י֫קֶב ֶ Judges 7:25; suffix יִקְבֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 15:14; 16:13; plural יְקָבִּים Job 24:11 4t.; יִקְבֵּי Zechariah 14:10; יְקָבֶיךָ Proverbs 3:10; — wine- vat, Isaiah 5:2; Haggai 2:16; Joel 4:13 ("" גַּת), Proverbs 3:10; often "" גֹּרֶן, Numbers 18:27, 30; Deuteronomy 15:14; 16:13; 2 Kings 6:27; Hosea 9:2; Joel 2:24; apparently of the wine-press Job 24:11 דָּֽרְכוּ יְקָבִים, Isaiah 16:10n (hence Jeremiah 48:33). Designating particular localities, Judges 7:25 זְאֵב יֶקֶב, Zechariah 14:10 הַמֶּלֶךְ יִקְבֵי (near Jerusalem). יְקַבְצְאֵל see below קבץ. |
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