yekev · winepress

What it means

yekev (יֶקֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “winepress”.

The place where grapes are trodden and the juice is collected.

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. The place where grapes are trodden.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• winepress ×8
• winepresses ×3
• presses ×2
• vats ×2
• wine vat ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1
• Joel×2
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×1

• Numbers 18:27

  And your contribution shall be counted to you as the grain from the threshing floor, and as the full produce from the winepress.

• Numbers 18:30

  And you shall say to them, ‘When you set apart the best of it from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress.

• Deuteronomy 15:14

  You shall provide for him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress; as YHWH your Elohim has blessed you, you shall give to him.

• Deuteronomy 16:13

  The Feast of Booths you shall celebrate for yourself seven days, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

• Judges 7:25

  They captured the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued after Midian, and they brought the head of Oreb and of Zeeb to Gideon from beyond the Jordan.

• 2 Kings 6:27

  He said, “If YHWH does not save you, from where shall I save you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

• Job 24:11

  Between their walls they press out oil; they tread the winepresses, and are thirsty.

• Proverbs 3:10

  and your barns will be filled with plenty, and your winepresses will burst with new wine.

• Isaiah 5:2

  He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a tower in its midst and also hewed out a winepress in it; and he waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced sour grapes.

• Isaiah 16:10

  And joy and gladness are gathered away from the orchard, and in the vineyards there is no singing, no shouting; the treader does not tread out wine in the presses; the shout I have made cease.

• Jeremiah 48:33

  And joy and gladness are gathered away from the orchard and from the land of Moab; and wine from the presses I have made cease; no one treads with the shout; the shout is no shout.

• Hosea 9:2

  Threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail her.

• Joel 2:24

  And the threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

• Joel 3:13

  Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, tread, for the winepress is full; the vats overflow, for their evil is great.

• Haggai 2:16

  since they were so: one came to a heap of twenty, and there were ten; one came to the wine vat to draw off fifty measures, and there were twenty.

• Zechariah 14:10

  All the land will be turned like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem; and it will be lifted high and will dwell in its place, from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the First Gate, to the Gate of the Corners, and from the Tower of Hananel to the winepresses of the king.