Strong's Definition
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)
KJV Usage: fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יֶ֫קֶב (ye.qev) — wine. wine vat, wine-press
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · יֶקֶב־זְאֵב
Constructions | Containers
wine vat = large container; ◄ normally hewn out of stone and part of a winepress; ► where the grape juice is collected
Constructions | ≈ גֹּרֶן
winepress = a 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
NUM 18:27 · NUM 18:30 · DEU 15:14 · DEU 16:13 · JDG 7:25 · 2KI 6:27 · JOB 24:11 · ISA 5:2 · ISA 16:10 · JER 48:33 · HOS 9:2 · ZEC 14:10
noun m
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
יֶ֫קֶב n.m. wine-vat, sometimes also wine-press base
