to tend vineyards
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.
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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.