Hebrew word · H6025

עֵנָב

'enav

grape

Appears 19 times in 17 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

grape(s)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Genesis · 3
  1. Genesis 40:10 עֲנָבִֽים׃ grapes

    and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

  2. Genesis 40:11 הָֽעֲנָבִ֗ים the grapes

    Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”

  3. Genesis 49:11 עֲנָבִ֖ים grapes

    He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Leviticus · 1
  1. Leviticus 25:5 עִנְּבֵ֥י [the] grapes

    You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

Numbers · 4
  1. Numbers 6:3 עֲנָבִים֙ וַעֲנָבִ֛ים grapes, and grapes

    he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

  2. Numbers 13:20 עֲנָבִֽים׃ grapes

    Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

  3. Numbers 13:23 עֲנָבִים֙ grapes

    When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

Deuteronomy · 4
  1. Deuteronomy 23:24 עֲנָבִ֛ים grapes

    When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.

  2. Deuteronomy 32:14 עֵנָ֖ב grape[s]

    with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

    Here: Singular in form but meaning grapes as a crop: 'the grape'.

  3. Deuteronomy 32:32 עֲנָבֵ֙מוֹ֙ עִנְּבֵי־ grapes their, [are] grapes of

    But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

    Here: "Their grapes." The ending -mô is an old poetic form of "their," one of the marks of the Song's archaic style.

Nehemiah · 1
  1. Nehemiah 13:15 עֲנָבִ֤ים grapes

    In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.

    Here: Fresh grapes for eating, not for the press. They spoil quickly, which gave sellers a reason not to wait out the Sabbath.

Isaiah · 2
  1. Isaiah 5:2 עֲנָבִ֖ים grapes

    He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

    Here: Just "grapes." Good, edible grapes are assumed, as the word needs no adjective.

  2. Isaiah 5:4 עֲנָבִ֖ים grapes

    What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

    Here: Plain "grapes": good, edible fruit fit for the winepress he had already cut. Hebrew needs no "sweet" or "good". Grapes are simply what a vine is for.

Jeremiah · 1
  1. Jeremiah 8:13 עֲנָבִ֨ים [will be] grapes

    I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

Hosea · 2
  1. Hosea 3:1 עֲנָבִֽים׃ grapes

    Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”

    Here: “Grapes”, which makes the cakes raisin cakes. The vintage was one of the gifts Israel credited to Baal instead of Yahweh (Hos 2:5, 8).

  2. Hosea 9:10 כַּעֲנָבִ֣ים like grapes

    I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.

    Here: Grapes are what you find in a tended vineyard, not in the desert. Put first in the sentence, the comparison stresses how surprising and welcome the find was.

Amos · 1
  1. Amos 9:13 עֲנָבִ֖ים grapes

    “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.

    Here: The ripe grapes of the vintage. Along with grain they were the staple crop of the land.

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