Winepress
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb;
and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at
the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the
heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan....
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Consisted of two vats or receptacles, (1) a trough (Heb.
gath,
Gr. lenos) into which the grapes were thrown and
where they were
trodden upon and bruised (Isa. 16:10; Lam. 1:15;
Joel 3:13); and
(2) a trough or vat (Heb. yekebh, Gr. hypolenion)
into which the
juice ran from the trough above, the gath (Neh.
13:15; Job
24:11; Isa. 63:2, 3; Ha...
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From the scanty notices contained in the Bible we gather
that, the wine-presses of the Jews consisted of two
receptacles of vats placed at different elevations, in the
upper one of which the grapes were trodden, while the lower
one received the expressed juice. The two vats are mentioned
together only in Joe 3:13 "The press is full: the fats
...
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General scriptures concerning
Nu 18:27,30; De 15:14; Jud 6:11
-In vineyards
Isa 5:2; Mt 21:33; Mr 12:1
-Trodden with joy and shouting
Jer 48:33
-FIGURATIVE
Treading the, of the sufferings of Christ
Isa 63:2,3
Of the judgments of God
La 1:15; Re 14:19,20...
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win, win'-pres:
I. Terms.
1. Wine:
(1) (~yayin), apparently from a non-Tsere root allied to
Greek oinos, Latin vinum, etc. This is the usual word for
"wine" and is found 141 times in Massoretic Text. (2)
chemer, perhaps "foaming" (Dt 32:14 and Massoretic Text Isa
27:2 (but see the English Revised Version margin)); Aramaic
chamar (Ezr 6:9; 7:22...
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Care of Vineyards
THE DESCRIPTION OF A VINEYARD BY ISAIAH AND BY JESUS IN ISAIAH'S PARABLE of the Vineyard, and in CHRIST's Parable of the Wicked Husbandman, taken together, we get an accurate picture of an Oriental vineyard. Isaiah wrote: "My well beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereo...
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The winepress as a figure of divine judgment. Isaiah describes the nations as being put in GOD's winepress where He treads upon them until His garments are sprinkled with their lifeblood (Isaiah 63:3-6). There is a graphic picture of the destruction of the army of Antichrist in the Book of Revelation. The coming Redeemer is described as being "clot...
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The Oriental winepress. The winepress of Isaiah's parable was constructed by hewing it out of rock (Isaiah 5:2). Those seen today are composed of two depressions hewn out of solid rock. The one is higher than the other one, and is also larger. The grapes are put into this one, and then trodden by the feet of men, women, and also children, usually w...
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