Sôrêq — H8321

Definition

masculine noun

a vine stock (properly, one yielding purple grapes, the richest variety)

1. choice species of vine, choice grapes

Usually translated as

choice, choicest, wine

Origin

or sôwrêq; and (feminine) sôrêqâh; from H8319 in the sense of redness (compare H8320)

• Shâraq (H8319)
• Sâruq (H8320)

Greek equivalents

• ámpelos (G288)

Occurrences

Sôrêq occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1)

• Genesis 49:11 — Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine (וְלַשֹּׂרֵקָ֖ה); he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
• Isaiah 5:2 — And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine (שֹׂרֵ֔ק), and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
• Jeremiah 2:21 — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine (שֹׂרֵ֔ק), wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?