Vineyard
VINEYARD
See VINE.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Vineyard
(, kerem, an orchard). In ancient Egypt the orchard and vineyard were not separated by any wall, and figs and other trees were planted within the same limits as the vines. But if not connected with it, the vineyard was close to the orchard, and their mode of training the vines on wooden rafters, supported by rows of columns, which divided the vineyard into numerous avenues, was both tasteful and convenient. The columns were frequently colored, but many were simple wooden pillars, supporting, with their forked summits, the poles that lay over them. Some vines were allowed to grow as standing bushes, and, being kept low, did not require any support; others were formed into a series of bowers; and from the form of the hieroglyphic signifying vineyard we may conclude that the most usual method of training them was in bowers, or in avenues formed by rafters and columns. But they do not appear to have attached them to other trees, as the Romans often did to the elm and poplar; and as the modern Italians do to the white mulberry, nor have the Egyptians of the present day adopted this European custom. When the vineyard was enclosed within its own wall of circuit, it frequently had a reservoir of water attached to it, as well as the building which contained the, wine-press; but the various modes of arranging the vineyard, as well as the other parts of the garden, depended, of course, on the taste of each individual, or the nature of the ground.
Great care was taken to preserve the clusters from the intrusion of birds; and boys were constantly employed about the season of the vintage, to frighten them with a sling and the sound of the voice. When the grapes were gathered, the bunches were carefully put into deep wicker baskets, which men carried, either on their head or shoulders, or slung upon a yoke, to the wine-press; but when intended for eating, they were put, like other fruits, into flat open baskets, and generally covered with leaves of the palm, vine, or other trees. These flat baskets were of wicker-work, and similar to those of the present day used at Cairo for the same purpose, which are made of osiers or common twigs. After the vintage was over, they allowed the kids to browse upon the vines, which grew as standing bushes (comp. Hor. Sat. 2, 5, 43); and the season of the year when the grapes ripened in Egypt was the month Epiphi, our June or July. Wilkinson, Anc. Egypt. 1, 41 sq. SEE VINE.
Although the climate of Egypt, especially the annual overflow of the Nile, was not favorable to the culture of the grape, yet from the above monuments we infer that its cultivation was at one time popular in Egypt, though it could only have been grown with success in a few of the high-lying districts, or on artificially elevated beds; and when commerce enabled the Egyptians to import wine from other countries better and cheaper than they could manufacture it themselves, they had the good sense to abandon this unprofitable branch of industry and direct their attention to commodities for which nature afforded them greater facilities. SEE EGYPT. Indeed, every circumstance proves to us that the cultivation of the vine required great care and attention in Egypt. This care was particularly required to guard against the hoary night-shade, called by the Arabs aneb el-dib, or the wolf-vine, which is common in Egypt and Palestine, grows much in the vineyards, and is very pernicious to them. It greatly resembles a vine in its shrubby stalk. This may have been the wild vine whose fruit poisoned the pottage which Elisha miraculously cured (2Ki 4:39-41). It is to this also that Moses alludes in his prophetic description of the future degeneracy of the Israelites, For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps (Deu 32:32-33). SEE VINE OF SODOM.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Vineyard
See Vine
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Vineyard
vinyard. See VINE.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Vineyard
See VINE.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Vineyard
Cottages (or booths) in
Isa 1:8
Towers in
Isa 5:2; Mat 21:33; Mar 12:1
Winepress in
Isa 5:2
Pools in
Ecc 2:4; Ecc 2:6
Leased
Son 8:11-12; Isa 7:23; Mat 21:33-39
Of kings
1Ch 27:26-28
Neglected
Pro 24:30-31
Plain of the
Jdg 11:33
Parables of
Isa 5:1-7; Isa 27:2-3; Jer 12:10; Mat 20:1-16; Mat 21:28-31; Mat 21:33-41; Luk 13:6-9 Vine; Wine; Abstinence, Total
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Vineyard
is used 22 times in the Synoptic Gospels; elsewhere in 1Co 9:7.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Vineyard
Deu 22:9 (c) This vineyard represents any field of service in which the soul winner seeks to sow the seed of the Word of GOD. The Lord is warning against mixing truths or doctrines in any service. If one Sunday-school teacher is teaching her class the true Gospel of salvation by grace alone, and the teacher in the next class is teaching salvation by morals or forgiveness by merit, then there is little expectation of gathering a crop for GOD. The seeds are mixed. If the farmer sows wheat in his field, but another one sows weeds in among the wheat, there will be no wheat crop gathered. The weeds will succeed. Corn is planted by itself, and potatoes by themselves, and wheat by itself. So it must be with GOD’s Gospel. It must be taught and given where there will be an opportunity for a crop.
Psa 80:15 (a) The vineyard is GOD’s people gathered as a nation in Palestine. The vines are the individual Jews.
Son 1:6 (c) In this strange passage, probably there is some irony. The people rather often during the life of CHRIST indicated that they believed He could do wonderful things. Some acknowledged Him as a sovereign ruler. Others indicated their faith in His power. He was not allowed, however, to be the ruler of His people Israel, to deliver them from their enemies, and to be their Messiah. They rejected His Lordship, although they claimed to be the people of GOD.
Isa 1:8 (b) The vineyard is the nation of Israel, and the daughter represents the people in that nation. They were desolate because they had rejected the Lord of their lives.
Mat 20:1 (b) This type represents any field of labor where GOD may place His servants to labor for Him.
Mat 21:33 (b) The vineyard is Israel, the householder is GOD Himself, the husbandmen are the rulers and leaders of the nation of Israel. (See also Mar 12:1; Luk 13:6; Luk 20:9).