גַּת
winepress
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1660 appears in the Book of Nehemiah — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
גת — transliterated gath — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “winepress.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It first appears in Judges 6:11. Related forms include נגן, אגן and מנגינה. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1660 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 4 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Winepress 2×
- American Standard Version†: Winepress 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Winepress 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Winepress 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1660 across 5† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1660 across 5† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1660 across 5† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1660 across 5† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
גת I wine-press.
גת II wine-press (contracted from גַּנְתְּ = יְגַנְתְּ)
גת III loc. (wine-press)
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. wine-press.
III. n.f. wine-press (contracted from גַּנְתְּ = יְגַנְתְּ)—abs. גַּת Ju 6:11 + 3 times; גִּתּוֹת Ne 13:15;—wine-press, lit. חֹבֵט חִטִּים בַּגַּת Ju 6:11 beating out wheat in the wine-press, to hide it from Midian; the juice of the grapes was pressed out by treading, דֹּרֵךְ בְּג֑ת Is 63:2 (in sim.), but also as acc. דֹּרְכִים גִּתּוֹת Ne 13:15; in fig. of judgment, גַּת דָּרַךְ אֲדֹנָי לִבְתוּלַת וגו׳ La 1:15 a wine-press hath Adonay trodden for the virgin daughter of Judah; also רְדוּ כִּי מָֽלְאָה גַּת Jo 4:13 (רדה only here with גַּת).—On the form and use of wine-press, and Heb. synonyms, v. Smith DB (art. wine-press) BenzArch.. 212 f. RobBR iii, 137 Schick ZPV x, 1887, 146, 150, and Pl. v. vii. Anderlind ZPV xi, 1888, 166 f.
IV. n.pr.loc. (wine-press)—Philistine city 𝔊 Γεθ, 𝔙 Geth, JosAnt. vi. 12, 2 etc., Γιττα (ed. Niese), exact site unknown (v. GASmGeog. 194 ff.), named with Gaza and Ashdod Jos 11:22 as home of remaining ʿAnaḳim; named with Ashdod, Gaza, Ashḳelon and ʿEḳron 1 S 6:17; with Ashḳelon 1 S 1:20; with Ashḳelon, Yabne and Ashdod 2 Ch 26:6; מֵעֶקְרוֹן וְעַד־גַּת 1 S 7:14, cf. 17:52b and also v 52a (read גַּת for גַּיְא 𝔊 We Dr); called גַּת פְּלִשְׁתִּים Am 6:2; built up by Rehoboam, according to 2 Ch 11:8; taken by Hazael 2 K 12:18; also 1 S 5:8; 17:4, 23 (of Goliath), cf. 2 S 21:20, 22 = 1 Ch 20:6, 8; 1 S 21:11, 13; 27:2, 3, 4, 11 2 S 15:18 1 K 2:39(×2), 40, 41 ψ 56:1 Mi 1:10, 14 1 Ch 7:21; 8:13, also 18:1 (but ‖ מֶתֶג אַמָּה 2 S 8:1; on change of this into reading in Ch v. We); c. ה loc., גַּ֫תָּה 1 K 2:40.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נגן (nâgan) (H5059) — to play stringed instrument.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גַּת I
- Gath in Philistea. Snh. 102ᵃ; a. e.
גַּת II
- , with suffix גִּתּ־, גִּיתּ־ (contr. of גֶּנֶת) a marked-off space. Tosef. Ohol. XV, 7 ‘the court of a burying place’ זו הגת … לתוכה (R. S. to Ohol. XV, 8, ed. Zuck. לתוכו, Var. גל) is the marked space into which the caverns open.—Par. IV, 2 שרפה חוץ מגִּתָּהּ if he burnt the cow outside of the place selected for the purpose; Zeb. XIV, 1; Tosef. Par. III, 9 sq.—Pl. גִּתּוֹת, גִּיתּ׳. Par. l. c.
גַּת III
- , with suffix גִּתּ־, גִּיתּ־ (b. h.; vat for wine pressing; (שעת)הג׳ the season of wine pressing. Ab. Zar. V, 11 ג׳ של אבן a stone vat, של חרס an earthen. Ib. IV, 8, v. בָּעַט. Ḥag. III, 4 (24ᵇ) מניחה לג׳ הבאה he may reserve it for the next season (and give it to the priest). Ib. 25ᵇ דבר שאין לו ג׳ something which has no special manufacturing season (e.g. date wine); a. fr.—Lam. R. introd. 32 (play on מבליגֹיֹתֹיֹ, Jer. VIII, 18) עשיתי לביתי גִּותִּי I made my house my vat (cmp. Lam. I, 15).—Pl. גִּיתּוֹת, גִּתּ׳.—בית הגי׳ the press room. Tosef. Ter. III, 7; Y. ib. II, 41ᵇ bot. בית הגיתי׳ (corr. acc.)—Tosef. l. c. שתי ג׳ לבור וכ׳ two vats for one pit; a. fr. e.g. Jeremiah 8:18
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H1660 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/גַֽת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 63:2 | 1 |
| בַּ/גַּ֔ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 6:11 | 1 |
| גִּתּ֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 13:15 | 1 |
| גַּ֔ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joel 3:13 | 1 |
| גַּ֚ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Lamentations 1:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1660, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- גת Gath H1661 Gath
- גתהחפר Gath-ha-Chêpher H1662 Gath-hepher
- גתים Gittayim H1664 Gittaim
- גתרמון Gath-Rimmôwn H1667 Gath-rimmon
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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