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What Is Winepress in the Bible?

Object

The place where grapes were trodden to make wine. Gideon was threshing wheat while hiding in one.

Where it appears in the Bible

Judges 6:11; Matthew 21:33

What the Bible says

Judges 6:11

And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak, that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon his son was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian,

Matthew 21:33

Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange country.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “lagar”

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