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H1660 גַּת (gath) gath
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

probably from 5059 (in the sense of treading out grapes); a wine-press (or vat for holding the grapes in pressing them)

KJV Usage: (wine-)press (fat)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

גַּת (gat) — wine press. winepress, wine vat

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun f · גַּת הַחֵפֶר · גִּתַּיִם · גִּתִּי · גַּת־רִמֹּון

Constructions

winepress = basin ◄ hewn out of a rock or lined with plaster ► into which harvested grapes were thrown and trampled to squeeze out the juice, which from there flowed into a trough or vat; ≈ treading a winepress is often used as a figure of speech to refer to God's anger and punishment

JDG 6:11 · NEH 13:15 · ISA 63:2 · LAM 1:15 · JOL 4:13

Gath-Hepher see גַּת הַחֵפֶר

JOS 19:13

name

Names of Locations

Gath = town; ◄ located in Philistia; ► one of the fives cities of the Philistines

JOS 11:22 · 1SA 5:8 · 1SA 6:17 · 1SA 7:14 · 1SA 17:4 · 1SA 17:23 · 1SA 17:52 · 1SA 17:52 · 1SA 21:11 · 1SA 21:13 · 1SA 27:2 · 1SA 27:3 · 1SA 27:4 · 1SA 27:11 · 2SA 1:20 · 2SA 15:18 · 2SA 21:20 · 2SA 21:22 · 1KI 2:39 · 1KI 2:39 · 1KI 2:40 · 1KI 2:40 · 1KI 2:41 · 2KI 12:18 · 1CH 7:21 · 1CH 8:13 · 1CH 18:1 · 1CH 20:6 · 1CH 20:8 · 2CH 11:8 · 2CH 26:6 · PSA 56:1 · AMO 6:2 · MIC 1:10

1 1SA 17:52 RSV NIV NJB NRSV REB GNT CEV ESV "Gath" | MT HOTTP-C NJPS "Gai" = גַּיְא

Matthew P. Anstey

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גַּת n.f. wine-press base

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