Lexicon :: Strong's H6025 - ʿēnāḇ

“Tying [fn]his foal to the [strong] vine

And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,

He washes his clothing in wine [because the grapevine produces abundantly],

And his robes in the blood of grapes.

Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol (cluster of grapes), and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two of them, with some of pomegranates and the figs.

“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, [fn]as many as you please, but you shall not put any in your basket [to take with you].

Butter and curds of cows, and milk of the flock,

With fat of lambs,

And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the finest of the wheat;

And you drank wine, the blood of grapes.

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,

And from the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of poison,

Their clusters, bitter.

In those days I saw some in Judah who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves or sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I protested and warned them on the day they sold the produce.

He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,

And planted it with [fn]the choicest vine (the people of Judah).

And He built a tower in the center of it;

And also hewed out a [fn]wine vat in it.

Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,

But it produced only worthless ones.

“What more could have been done for My vineyard that I have not done in it?

When I expected it to produce good grapes, why did it yield worthless ones?

“I will gather and snatch them away [utterly consuming them],” says the LORD.

“There will be no grapes on the vine,

Nor figs on the fig tree,

And even the leaf will wither;

And the things that I have given them will pass away [by the hand of those whom I have appointed].”’”

Then the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman ([fn]Gomer) who is beloved by her husband and yet is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the [fn]children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love the raisin cakes [used in the feasts in pagan worship].”

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness [an unexpected and refreshing delight];

I saw your fathers (ancestors) as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season,

But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to shamefulness [the worship of Baal],

And [because of their spiritual and physical adultery] they became as detestable and loathsome as the thing they loved.

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,

“When the plowman shall overtake the one who gathers the harvest,

And the one who treads the grapes [shall overtake] him who sows the seed [for the harvest continues until planting time];

When the mountains will drip sweet wine

And all the hills shall melt [that is, everything that was once barren will overflow with streams of blessing].