H8321: שֹׂרֵק
sôrêq · pronounced so-rake' · “vine”
Definition
a vine stock (properly, one yielding purple grapes, the richest variety)
KJV translates it as: choice(-st, noble) wine. Compare H8291 (שָׂרוּק).
Word origin: or שׂוֹרֵק; and (feminine) שֹׂרֵקָה; from H8319 (שָׁרַק) in the sense of redness (compare H8320 (שָׂרֻק));
Extended definition
Also means: so.re.qah (שֹׂרֵקָה "vine" H8321B)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8321 is translated
- a choice vine ×2
- choice vine ×1
Bible verses with H8321 (sôrêq)
Sôrêq appears in 3 verses.
- Genesis 49:11
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
- Isaiah 5:2
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
- Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?