Strong H1660גַּת
wine press
- Transliteration
- gath
- Pronunciation
- gath
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Probably from H5059 (in the sense of treading out grapes); a wine press (or vat for holding the grapes in pressing them): - (wine-) press (fat).
Detailed definition
winepress, wine vat
In the Bible
Strong H1660 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- press2
- winepress2
- winefat1
First verses
- Judges 6:11And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- Nehemiah 13:15In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
- Isaiah 63:2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
- Lamentations 1:15The 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.
- Joel 3:13Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.