[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/vine.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / vine [← V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/V/) # vine «vine» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a plant with a long, thin, bendy stem that climbs up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (a vine, vines) ### meaning for a pupil 1) A vine is a plant with a long, thin, bendy stem that climbs up walls, fences or trees, or spreads along the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#m1) 2) A grapevine, the plant that grapes grow on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#m2) 3) In the jungle, a vine is a long hanging plant stem that animals (and people in stories) can swing on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah and prophets, the vine is the plant that grows grapes. The prophets and psalms also use it as a picture of Israel and of the land's good harvest, and its failing as a sign of trouble. Interpretation: The vine is one of the seven kinds of fruit that praise the Land of Israel. Wine from its grapes is used in blessings and holiday meals. The tradition reads Isaiah's vine as a picture of Israel, which God planted and cared for. In the primary lessons: In science lessons vines show how plants grow towards light and use other things for support; their curling stems are called tendrils. In everyday life you see vines on garden walls, trellises and fences (ivy, grapes, beans, pumpkins, melons). In stories, explorers and monkeys swing from vine to vine through the jungle. Phrases: «grapevine», «climbing vine», «hear it on the grapevine» (hear news as a rumour). ### examples - Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall. (Torah GEN.49.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x1) - a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x2) - And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him: 'In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; (Torah GEN.40.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x3) - He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost. (Writings PSA.78.47, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x4) - The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh. (Prophets ISA.24.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x5) - Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; (Prophets ISA.32.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x6) - Ivy is a vine that climbs up the old brick wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x7) - Grapes grow in bunches on a vine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x8) - Pumpkins grow on long vines that spread across the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x9) - The monkey swung from one vine to the next. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x10) - Bean vines curl around the poles in our garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x11) - Vines use thin curly tendrils to hold on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x12) - Don't pull the vine, or the whole plant may come down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x13) - I heard on the grapevine that we're getting a new teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x14) - The field was full of vines heavy with grapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x15) ### note Countable: a vine, two vines. Not the same as «wine» (a drink made from grapes) — vine and wine sound alike but are different words. Some vines, like poison ivy, can give you an itchy rash, so do not touch plants you do not know. «To hear something on the grapevine» means to hear it as gossip, not from an official source. ### In the corpora - [Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1621/) - [a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.254/) - [And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.272/) - [The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.493/) - [Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.672/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «vine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.