Cluster

Cluster - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CLUSTER, n.

1. A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a knot; as a cluster of raisins.

2. A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body; as a cluster of bees; a cluster of people.

3. A number of things situated near each other; as a cluster of governments in Italy.

CLUSTER, v.i.

1. To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch, or bunches; as, clustering grapes.

2. To form into flakes; as, clustering snow.

3. To collect into flocks or crowds.

CLUSTER, v.t. To collect into a bunch or close body.

klus'-ter:

(1) 'eshkol; compare proper name VALE OF ESHCOL. (which see), from root meaning "to bind together." A cluster or bunch of grapes (Ge 40:10; Nu 13:23; Isa 65:8; So 7:8; Mic 7:1, etc.); a cluster of henna flowers (So 1:14); a cluster of dates (So 7:7). "Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter." (De 32:32).

(2) botrus, "gather the clusters of the vine of the earth" (Re 14:18).

The "cluster of raisins" (tsimmuqim) of 1Sa 25:18; 30:12, should rather be "raisin cakes" or "dried raisins."

E. W. G. Masterman