Fat,
i.e. VAT, the word employed in the Authorized Version to translate the Hebrew term yekeb, in
The word commonly used for yekeb is "winepress" or "winefat," and once "pressfat."
The "vats" appear to have been excavated out of the native rock of the hills on which the vineyards lay.
"The threshing floors shall be full of grain; the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
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