STRONGS NUMBER H3342


Word Summary
yeqeb: wine vat
Original Word: יֶקֶב
Transliteration: yeqeb
Phonetic Spelling: (yeh'-keb)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: wine vat
Meaning: a trough, a wine-vat
Strong's Concordance
fats, presses, press-fat, winepress

From an unused root meaning to excavate; 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) -- fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3342. yeqeb

יֶ֫קֶבnoun masculineProverbs 3:10 wine-vat (a trough or hollow excavated (חצבIsaiah 5:2) in the rock for receiving the juice trodden out in the גַּת‎: Benz212f.), sometimes also wine-press (the trough in which the grapes were trodden out); — absolute יֶ֫קֶב5:2 4t.; יָ֑קֶבNumbers 18:30; construct י֫קֶב ֶJudges 7:25; suffix יִקְבֶ֑ךָDeuteronomy 15:14; 16:13; plural יְקָבִּיםJob 24:11 4t.; יִקְבֵּיZechariah 14:10; יְקָבֶיךָProverbs 3:10; — wine- vat, Isaiah 5:2; Haggai 2:16; Joel 4:13 ("" גַּת‎), Proverbs 3:10; often "" גֹּרֶן‎, Numbers 18:27, 30; Deuteronomy 15:14; 16:13; 2 Kings 6:27; Hosea 9:2; Joel 2:24; apparently of the wine-press Job 24:11 דָּֽרְכוּ יְקָבִים‎, Isaiah 16:10n (hence Jeremiah 48:33). Designating particular localities, Judges 7:25 זְאֵב יֶקֶב‎, Zechariah 14:10 הַמֶּלֶךְ יִקְבֵי‎ (near Jerusalem).

יְקַבְצְאֵל‎ see below קבץ‎.