שֹׂרֵקsôrêq

שֹׂרֵק: choice species of vine (Isaiah 5:2; Jeremiah 2:21)

Pronunciation: so-rake' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8321

Meanings

שׂרֵקָה: choice vine (Genesis 49:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 49:11 He ties his foal to a grapevine, the colt of his donkey to a choice vine. He washes his clothes in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
  • Isaiah 5:2 He plowed the land, cleared its stones, and planted it with the best vines. In the middle he built a watchtower and carved a winepress in the nearby rocks. Then he waited for a harvest of sweet grapes, but the grapes that grew were bitter.
  • Jeremiah 2:21 But I was the one who planted you, choosing a vine of the purest stock—the very best. How did you grow into this corrupt wild vine?

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).