Lexicon
כֶּרֶם
ke.rem
H3754
H:N-M Hebrew

vineyard

92
Occurrences
24
Books
Hebrew
Language

ke.rem denotes a cultivated vineyard, viewed as property to plant, tend, harvest, enjoy, or lose.

The term consistently denotes a cultivated vineyard: a place planted and expected to yield fruit, treated as a possession, and mentioned in laws, prosperity, loss, and restoration. The same concrete agricultural setting remains in view when a vineyard is described as producing poorly or being subject to judgment.

Senses in use

  1. Cultivated vineyard as land and possession · dominant

    The noun identifies vineyard land that can be planted, owned, exchanged, harvested, or left fallow. In Genesis 9:20 the APB renders Noah's action as beginning “to plant a vineyard”; in 1 Kings 21:2 it renders Ahab's demand for Naboth's vineyard and his offer of another in exchange; and in Deuteronomy 24:21 it places the vineyard in the gathering of grapes. Isaiah 5:4 presents a vineyard from which grapes were expected, while Amos 9:14 joins planting vineyards with drinking their wine.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB regularly presents the noun as “vineyard” or “vineyards,” especially in clauses about planting, fruit, wine, possession, and agricultural loss. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clause-level setting rather than marking every individual token precisely.

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Across Scripture