kerem · vineyard

What it means

kerem (כֶּרֶם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vineyard”.

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 field of grapevines; or God's people.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Vineyard: land planted with vines. Of the same root is כֹּרֵם, “vinedresser”.

• Planting a vineyard Genesis 9:20Deuteronomy 20:6
• Laws of the vineyard: what is left for the poor Leviticus 19:10
• The vineyard of Naboth 1 Kings 21:1
• “The vineyard of YHWH Tsevaot {is} the house of Israel” Isaiah 5:1Isaiah 5:7
• “My vineyard, my own”: the beloved Song of Songs 1:6

Historical and cultural background

The law commands not to strip the vineyard bare or gather the fallen grapes: “for the poor and for the resident alien you shall leave them” (Leviticus 19:10). The one who had planted a vineyard and had not begun to use it was free from going to war (Deuteronomy 20:6).

How we translate it

“Vineyard” 48 times and “vineyards” 43; “olive groves” 1, where the Hebrew says ‘vineyard of olive’ (Judges 15:5).

How it is translated

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

• vineyard ×48
• vineyards ×43
• olive groves ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×4
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×8
• Joshua×1
• Judges×5
• 1 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×10
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×5
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×9
• Isaiah×14
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×4
• Micah×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 9:20

  And Noah, a man of the ground, was the first to plant a vineyard.

• Exodus 22:5

  When a man lets a field or a vineyard be grazed over, and lets loose his livestock and it grazes in another's field, he shall repay from the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.

• Exodus 23:11

  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and leave it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the animals of the field may eat. So you shall do with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

• Leviticus 19:10

  And your vineyard you shall not strip bare, and the fallen grapes of your vineyard you shall not gather; for the poor and for the resident alien you shall leave them. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Leviticus 25:3

  Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather its produce;

• Leviticus 25:4

  but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH; your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune.

• Numbers 16:14

  Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us an inheritance of field and vineyard. Will you gouge out the eyes of those men? We will not come up!”

• Numbers 20:17

  Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the way of the king; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

• Numbers 21:22

  “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or into vineyard; we will not drink water from a well; we will go by the way of the king until we have passed through your territory.”

• Numbers 22:24

  Then the angel of YHWH stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on this side and a wall on that side.

• Deuteronomy 6:11

  houses full of all good things that you did not fill, cisterns dug that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant— and you eat and are satisfied,

• Deuteronomy 20:6

  And who is the man who has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the war and another man begin to use it.

• Deuteronomy 22:9

  You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds, so that the whole yield, the seed that you sow and the produce of the vineyard, does not become holy.

• Deuteronomy 23:24

  When you go into the vineyard of your neighbor, you may eat grapes as your soul desires, until you are full, but into your container you shall not put any.

• Deuteronomy 24:21

  When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean after you; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 28:30

  You will become engaged to a woman, and another man will lie with her; you will build a house, and you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, and you will not begin to use it.

• Deuteronomy 28:39

  You will plant vineyards and work them, but wine you will not drink nor gather, for the worm will eat them.

• Joshua 24:13

  And I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities that you had not built, and you live in them; of vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant you are eating.’

• Judges 9:27

  They went out into the field and harvested their vineyards and trod the grapes, and they held a festival of praise; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.

• Judges 14:5

  Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and they came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and look, a young lion came roaring to meet him.

• Judges 15:5

  He set fire to the torches and let them loose into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned up from the stacked grain to the standing grain and to the olive groves.

• Judges 21:20

  And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards,

• Judges 21:21

  and watch; and look, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out from the vineyards and snatch for yourselves, each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

• 1 Samuel 8:14

  Your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves, the best ones, he will take and give to his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:15

  Of your grain and your vineyards he will take a tenth and give it to his officials and to his servants.

• 1 Samuel 22:7

  Saul said to his servants who stood by him, “Hear, please, Benjaminites: will the son of Jesse give to all of you too fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?

• 1 Kings 21:1

  And it happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard that was in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, so that it may be mine for a garden of vegetables, for it is near, beside my house; and I will give you in its place a vineyard better than it; or, if it is good in your eyes, I will give you silver, the price of it.”

• 1 Kings 21:6

  He spoke to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for silver; or if you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in its place’; and he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

• 1 Kings 21:7

  Jezebel his wife said to him, “You now exercise the kingship over Israel! Get up, eat bread, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  And it happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for silver; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:16

  And it happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

• 1 Kings 21:18

  “Get up, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; look, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

• 2 Kings 5:26

  He said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when a man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to take silver and to take clothes, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, male slaves and female slaves?

• 2 Kings 18:32

  until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees of oil and honey, so that you may live and not die.” And do not listen to Hezekiah, for he incites you, saying, “YHWH will deliver us.”

• 2 Kings 19:29

  And this shall be for you the sign: this year you will eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

• 1 Chronicles 27:27

  over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over what was in the vineyards for the stores of wine was Zabdi the Shiphmite;

• Nehemiah 5:3

  And there were those who were saying, “Our fields, our vineyards, and our houses we are pledging, so that we may get grain in the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  And there were those who were saying, “We have borrowed silver for the tribute of the king on our fields and our vineyards.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  And now, as the flesh of our brothers is our flesh, as their sons are our sons; and look, we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are subjected, and there is no power in our hand, and our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”

And 52 more times.