'Grapevine' in the Bible
All the time of his separation he shall not eat anything produced from the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
And the vine replied, ‘Should I give up my new wine, which makes God and men happy, and go to wave over the trees?’
She may not eat anything that comes from the vine nor drink wine or [any other] intoxicating drink, nor eat anything [ceremonially] unclean. She shall observe everything that I commanded her.”
“I went down to the orchard of nut treesTo see the flowers of the valley,To see whether the grapevine had buddedAnd the pomegranates were in flower.
“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree;I will grasp its branches.Let your breasts be like clusters of the grapevine,And the fragrance of your breath like apples,
“Son of man, how is the wood of the grapevine (Israel) better than any wood of a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Like the wood of the grapevine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the people of Jerusalem;
Is the seed still in the barn? As to the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree—they have not produced. Yet from this day on I will bless you [in the harvest of your crops].’”