eshkol · cluster

What it means

eshkol (אֶשְׁכּוֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cluster”.

Of grapes or other fruit.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A bunch of grapes or flowers.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cluster ×5
• clusters ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 40:10

  and on the vine were three branches; and as it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters ripened into grapes.

• Numbers 13:23

  And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a carrying pole between two men, and also some of the pomegranates and of the figs.

• Numbers 13:24

  That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut from there.

• Deuteronomy 32:32

  For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; they have bitter clusters.

• Song of Songs 1:14

  A cluster of henna is my beloved to me in the vineyards of En-gedi.

• Song of Songs 7:7

  This stature of yours is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters.

• Song of Songs 7:8

  I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its branches.” And please let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the fragrance of your nose like apples,

• Isaiah 65:8

  Thus says YHWH: “As when the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it,’ so I will do for the sake of my servants, so as not to destroy everything.

• Micah 7:1

  Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the grape harvest; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that my soul desired.