Bible word study

Yeqeb (Strong’s H3342): Meaning in the Bible

Yeqeb (יֶקֶב) is the Hebrew word numbered H3342 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press)..

• Original wordיֶקֶב
• Transliterationyeqeb
• Pronunciationyeh'-keb
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3342
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from an unused root meaning to excavate;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yeqeb appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yeqeb (H3342) stands behind 16 English renderings in 16 verses across 12 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (2), Isaiah (2).

How the King James Bible renders Yeqeb, by count

• winepress7 of 16 (44 percent)
• winepresses3 of 16 (19 percent)
• fats2 of 16 (12 percent)
• presses2 of 16 (12 percent)
• pressfat1 of 16 (6 percent)
• wine1 of 16 (6 percent)

Three places to read Yeqeb

• Numbers 18:27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
• 2 Kings 6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
• Jeremiah 48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yeqeb in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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