Vat
Vat
SEE WINE-FAT.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Vat (2)
a cistern or vessel; a term frequently found in the inventories of religious houses.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Vat
See WINEVAT.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Vat
Fig. 336Winepress
Vat, the receptacle in which grapes and olives were trodden with the feet. Vats were either formed with stones and covered with insoluble cement, or were, in favorable localities, hewn out of the rock, forming raised reservoirs, into which the picked grapes were cast and trodden upon by men to press out the must, or new wine, which flowed out through gratings or spouts into large vessels placed outside. In the Egyptian paintings these vats are represented as having a temporary beam extended over them, with short ropes hanging down, by which the treaders held fast, and which greatly helped them in their labor, inasmuch as the beam acted as a lever in its rebound, lifting them up from the mass of grapes into which they sank.
This work, although laborious, was performed with great animation, accompanied by vintage-songs, and with a peculiar shout or cry, and sometimes by instrumental music (Isa 16:9-10; Jer 25:30; Jer 48:32-33).