Manners & Customs
Tirosh is the most general term for "vintage fruit," put in
connection with "corn and oil," necessaries (dagan, yitshar,
rather more generally the produce of the field and the
orchard) and ordinary articles of diet in Israel. It occurs
38 times, namely, six times by itself, eleven times with
dagan, twice with yitshar, nineteen times with both ...
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The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through
the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry
the wheels of his chariots?...
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The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the
midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my
young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of
Judah, [as] in a winepress....
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And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he
will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy
land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of
thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he
sware unto thy fathers to give thee....
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Of grain
Ru 3:2; Isa 30:24; Mt 3:12...
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The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the
midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my
young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of
Judah, [as] in a winepress....
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The common Hebrew word for wine is _yayin_, from a root
meaning
"to boil up," "to be in a ferment." Others derive it
from a root
meaning "to tread out," and hence the juice of the
grape trodden
out. The Greek word for wine is _oinos_, and the
Latin _vinun_.
But besides this common Hebrew word, there are
several others
which are thus rende...
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The position of women in the Hebrew commonwealth contrasts
favorably with that which in the present day is assigned to
them generally in eastern countries. The most salient point
of contrast in the usages of ancient as compared with modern
Oriental society was the large amount of liberty enjoyed by
women. Instead of being immured in a harem, o...
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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild
grapes....
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FIGURATIVE
Le 26:13; Isa 9:4; 10:27; Jer 2:20; 5:5; 28:2,4,10;
30:8;
La 1:14; 3:27; Mt 11:29,30; Ac 15:10...
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