יֶקֶב
yeqeb
wine-vat
Strong's H3342NounHebrewTWOT 900a

יֶקֶב (yeqeb) is a Hebrew noun meaning wine-vat. It appears 16 times in 12 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3342).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 900a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 900a)wine-vat, wine-press; trough, vat; fats, presses, press-fat, wine
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

יֶ֫קֶב noun, masculine: wine-vat, wine-press

wine-vat, sometimes also wine-press

Strong's H3342 יֶקֶב: a trough (as dug out); specifically, a wine-vat (whether the lower one, into which the juice drains; or the upper, in which the grapes are crushed)
KJV:fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 900: יקב yqb — be sunk, depressed, hollow, cavity

See it in Scripture

Numbers 18:27Deuteronomy 15:14Judges 7:25

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