כֶּרֶם
kerem · keh'-rem
a garden or vineyard
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root of uncertain meaning;
a garden or vineyard
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: vines, (increase of the) vineyard(-s), vintage. See also H1021 (בֵּית הַכֶּרֶם).
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep
The open hand that covers of the head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כֶּרֶם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
92 occurrences · 92 OT · 0 NT · 71 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- vineyards11 · 17%
- and vineyards8 · 13%
- of the vineyards5 · 8%
- thy vineyard4 · 6%
- a vineyard4 · 6%
- vineyard3 · 5%
- the vineyard2 · 3%
- had a vineyard2 · 3%
- in the vineyards2 · 3%
- and your vineyards2 · 3%
- me thy vineyard2 · 3%
- to the vineyards2 · 3%
- their vineyards2 · 3%
- my vineyard2 · 3%
- of thy vineyard2 · 3%
- and of your vineyards1 · 2%
- with the vineyards1 · 2%
- the grapes of thy vineyard1 · 2%
- not, vineyards1 · 2%
- or into the vineyards1 · 2%
- or through the vineyards1 · 2%
- in them; of the vineyards1 · 2%
- with thy vineyard1 · 2%
- of his own vineyard1 · 2%
- or vineyard1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.