יֶקֶבyeqeb
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)
Pronunciation: yeh'-keb · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3342
Meanings
wine-vat, wine-press, a trough or hollow excavated (חצב Isa 5:2) in the rock for receiving the juice trodden out in the גַּת, (the trough in which the grapes were trodden out) (Proverbs 3:10; Isaiah 5:2; Numbers 18:30; Judges 7:25; Deuteronomy 15:14)
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 18:27 The Lord will consider this offering to be your harvest offering, as though it were the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress.
- Numbers 18:30 “Also, give these instructions to the Levites: When you present the best part as your offering, it will be considered as though it came from your own threshing floor or winepress.
- Deuteronomy 15:14 Give him a generous farewell gift from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Share with him some of the bounty with which the Lord your God has blessed you.
- Deuteronomy 16:13 “You must observe the Festival of Shelters for seven days at the end of the harvest season, after the grain has been threshed and the grapes have been pressed.
- Judges 7:25 They captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two Midianite commanders, killing Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. And they continued to chase the Midianites. Afterward the Israelites brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan River.
- 2 Kings 6:27 He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, what can I do? I have neither food from the threshing floor nor wine from the press to give you.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).