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title: זָג — skin of a grape · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זָג (2085), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: skin of a grape. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זָג

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«זָג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **skin of a grape** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2085 · **BDB:** זָג

### Glosses

skin (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

skin of a grape [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2085/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] name of some comparatively insignif. product of vine (גֶּפֶן הַיַּיִן), the eating of which was included in prohibition to Nazirite; skin of grape, so Thes (after Onk Mishna Maaser. 5 § 4, Orla 1 § 8, cf. Sifre ad loc.): מֵחַרְצַנִּים וְעַד־זָ֖ג לֹא יֹאכֵ֑ל Nu 6:4 (NH זג, זוג; so called as transparent? cf. Aramaic זְגוּגִיתָא, ܙܰܓܽܘܓܺܝܬܳܐ glass, NH זַגָּג glazier (Arabic زُجَاجٌ glass, is a loan-wd. according to Frä64); cf. theory of √ in LagGes Abh. 41, Fll.c.: but in Heb. glass is זְכוֹכִית).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זָג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2085/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 6:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.4/)

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כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י נִזְר֑וֹ מִכֹּל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יֵעָשֶׂ֜ה מִגֶּ֣פֶן הַיַּ֗יִן מֵחַרְצַנִּ֛ים וְעַד־זָ֖ג לֹ֥א יֹאכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* all the.days his.consecration his from all that it.is.made from the.vine of the.wine from seeds and unto skin not he.will.eat

*JPS 1917:* All the days of his Naziriteship shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the pressed grapes even to the grapestone.

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