Gephen גֶּ֫פֶן

Gephen (Hebrew גֶּ֫פֶן, Strong's H1612) is a Hebrew noun meaning “vine”. It occurs 55 times in 53 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Gephen, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 40:9
  And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
• Genesis 40:10
  And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.
• Genesis 49:11
  Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Numbers

• Numbers 6:4
  All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
• Numbers 20:5
  And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 8:8
  A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
• Deuteronomy 32:32
  For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

Judges

• Judges 9:12
  Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.Then the trees said to the grapevine, ‘Come and reign over us.’
• Judges 9:13
  And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?But the grapevine replied, ‘Should I stop giving my wine that cheers both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’
• Judges 13:14
  She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 4:25
  And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, all the days of Solomon.Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 4:39
  And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
• 2 Kings 18:31
  Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

Job

• Job 15:33
  He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

Psalms

• Psalm 78:47
  He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
• Psalm 80:8
  Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
• Psalm 80:14
  Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
• Psalm 105:33
  He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
• Psalm 128:3
  Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 2:13
  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
• Song of Solomon 6:11
  I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.
• Song of Solomon 7:8
  I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
• Song of Solomon 7:12
  Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 7:23
  And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
• Isaiah 16:8
  For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
• Isaiah 16:9
  Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
• Isaiah 24:7
  The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
• Isaiah 32:12
  They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
• Isaiah 34:4
  And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
• Isaiah 36:16
  Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 2:21
  Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
• Jeremiah 5:17
  And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
• Jeremiah 6:9
  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
• Jeremiah 8:13
  I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
• Jeremiah 48:32
  O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 15:2
  Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?
• Ezekiel 15:6
  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 17:6
  And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.
• Ezekiel 17:7
  There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.
• Ezekiel 17:8
  It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.It had been planted in good soil by abundant waters in order to yield branches and bear fruit and become a splendid vine.’
• Ezekiel 19:10
  Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.

Hosea

• Hosea 2:12
  And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
• Hosea 10:1
  Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.
• Hosea 14:7
  They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Joel

• Joel 1:7
  He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
• Joel 1:12
  The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
• Joel 2:22
  Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.

Micah

• Micah 4:4
  But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.

Habakkuk

• Habakkuk 3:17
  Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

Haggai

• Haggai 2:19
  Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”

Zechariah

• Zechariah 3:10
  In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.’”
• Zechariah 8:12
  For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.

Malachi

• Malachi 3:11
  And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).