יֶ֫קֶב
wine vat
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.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H3342 appears in the Book of 2 Kings — 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.
2 Kings
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.
יקב (yeqeb) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “wine vat.” It first appears in Numbers 18:27. With 16 verses in 12 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3342 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 2 verses 13%
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 13%
- Isaiah 2 verses 13%
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 16 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 25%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 13%
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).
- King James Version: Winepress 6×, Winepresses 3×, Fats 2×
- American Standard Version: Winepress 5×, Vats 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Winepress 7×, Winepresses 3×, Vats 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Winepress 7×, Vats 2×, Winepresses 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3342 across 16 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 H3342 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 H3342 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 H3342 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- wine vat, wine-press
Word origin
n.m. Pr 3:10 wine-vat (a trough or hollow excavated (חצב Is 5:2) in the rock for receiving the juice trodden out in the גַּת: Benz212 f.), sometimes also wine-press (the trough in which the grapes were trodden out);—abs. יֶ֫קֶב Is 5:2 + 4 times; יָ֑קֶב Nu 18:30; cstr. יֶ֫קֶב Ju 7:25; sf. יִקְבֶ֑ךָ Dt 15:14; 16:13; pl. יְקָבִים Jb 24:11 + 4 times; יִקְבֵי Zc 14:10; יְקָבֶיךָ Pr 3:10;—wine-vat, Is 5:2 Hg 2:16 Jo 4:13 (‖ גַּת), Pr 3:10; often ‖ גֹּרֶן, Nu 18:27, 30 Dt 15:14; 16:13 2 K 6:27 Ho 9:2 Jo 2:24; appar. of the wine-press Jb 24:11 יְקָבִים דָּֽרְכוּ, Is 16:10 (hence Je 48:33). Designating particular localities, Ju 7:25 יֶקֶב זְאֵב, Zc 14:10 יִקְבֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ (near Jerusalem).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to excavate
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.
יָקַב
- (cmp. נקב) to hollow out. Cant. R. to VII, 5 (ref. to Zech. XIV, 10) עד היקבים שיְקָבָן מלך מ"ה up to the hollows which the king of kings has caved out; Yalk. Is. 334; v. יָפוֹ. e.g. Zechariah 14:10
יֶקֶב
- preced.) excavation, tank.—Pl. יְקָבִים, יְקָבִין. B. Bath. 67ᵇ; Tosef. ib. III, 2; Y. ib. IV, 14ᶜ bot. tanks of the press. Cant. R. to VII, 5, a. e., v. preced.
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 15 distinct written forms H3342 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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Numbers 18:27
- Deuteronomy 15:14
- Judges 7:25
- 2 Kings 6:27
- Job 24:11
- Proverbs 3:10
- Isaiah 5:2
- Hosea 9:2
- Joel 2:24
- Haggai 2:16
- Zechariah 14:10
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
