Lexicon
כָּרַם
ko.rem
H3755
H:V Hebrew

to tend vineyards

5
Occurrences
5
Books
Hebrew
Language

ko.rem denotes vineyard workers, addressed or listed alongside farmers and assigned to vineyard cultivation.

The attested forms identify plural vineyard workers: they are listed with farmers, left to work vineyards and fields, assigned alongside foreign farmers, and called to mourn when the field harvest fails.

Senses in use

  1. Vineyard workers and cultivators · dominant

    All five occurrences use masculine plural noun forms for people associated with vineyard work. In 2 Chronicles 26:10 the APB renders them among those present in the mountains and Carmel; in 2 Kings 25:12 and Jeremiah 52:16 it renders the remaining poor as working vineyards or as “vinedressers”; Isaiah 61:5 places them beside farmers, while Joel 1:11 addresses them in connection with the perished field harvest.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the people as “vinedressers” and as those who “work the vineyards.” Its wording confirms the verses' vineyard-work setting without fixing a separate English equivalent in every clause.

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