Throughout Scripture, the grape, its juice, and the wine made from it, has an enormous amount of symbolism associated with it.
In Leviticus 26, the grape is used to signify having plenty to eat and living securely in the land. This is exemplified when the spies bring back to Moses a bunch of grapes that had to be carried on a pole between two men, In contrast, Isaiah 18 and 32 uses the lack of grapes to show God’s discontent with His children.
Wine made from grapes is mostly associated with the shed blood of Yeshua, as is the cup from which He drank. In some verses, the word cup is used, instead of the wine it held, because the cup was used only for wine, so cup is sometimes synonymous with wine.
The dregs of the wine are associated with God’s anger and fierce wrath.
For those who take a Nazarite vow, they are forbidden to consume any part of the grape, until their vow is finished.
Yeshua’s first miracle was turning the water into wine at a marriage feast, signifying the the part He will play in bring all who accept Him to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
enab: a grape
Original Word: עֲנָבִים
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling: (ay-nawb')
from an unused root word: to bear fruit
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