Lexicon
יַ֫יִן
ya.yin
H3196
H:N-M Hebrew

wine

141
Occurrences
31
Books
Hebrew
Language

ya.yin is a beverage used for drinking, provisions, feasts, offerings, and images of abundance or drunkenness.

The term denotes a beverage supplied for travel and meals, drunk by individuals and at feasts, and included with offerings and stores. The same concrete beverage also appears in scenes of drunkenness, in promises of vineyard produce, and in poetic imagery.

Senses in use

  1. A beverage for drinking, supply, feasting, and offering · dominant

    The singular masculine noun names a drink brought with food in Genesis 14:18 and supplied to weary people in 2 Samuel 16:2. In Exodus 29:40 the APB renders it within a measured drink offering, while Esther 5:6 places the king's petition to Esther at a feast identified by the beverage. Genesis 9:21 and Amos 9:14 show it drunk in contexts of intoxication and vineyard restoration.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the term as “wine” where the surrounding clause identifies a drink, a feast, stored provisions, or an offering. These renderings are confirmed by the verse contexts rather than treated as a separate sense for each English phrasing.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture