GRAPE

Grape. Grape
The fruit of the vine, which was extensively cultivated in Palestine. Grapes are spoken of as “tender” (Cant. 2:13, 15), “unripe” (Job 15:33), “sour” (Isa. 18:5), “wild” (Isa. 5:2,4). (See Rev. 14:18; Micah 7:1; Jer. 6:9; Ezek. 18:2, for figurative use of the word.) (See VINE.)

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GRAPE. → Cultivated in vineyards
* By Noah Ge 9:20
* By the Canaanites Nu 13:24; De 6:11; Jos 24:13
* By the Edomites Nu 20:17
* By the Amorites Nu 21:22; Isa 16:8,9
* By the Philistines Jud 15:5

→ Grown
* At Abel (margin) Jud 11:33
* At Baal-hamon So 8:11
* At Carmel 2Ch 26:10
* At En-gedi So 1:14
* At Jezreel 1Ki 21:1
* At Lebanon Ho 14:7
* At Samaria Jer 31:5
* At Shechem Jud 9:27
* At Shiloh Jud 21:20,21
* At Timnath Jud 14:5

→ Cultivation of Le 25:3,11; De 28:39; 2Ch 26:10; So 6:11; Isa 5:1; Jer 31:5 → Wine made of Jer 25:30 → Wine of, forbidden to Nazarites Nu 6:4 → See NAZARITES → See VINE → See VINEYARDS → See WINE → FIGURATIVE De 32:32; Ps 128:3; Jer 2:21; Eze 15; Ho 10:1; Re 14:18-20
* FABLE OF Jud 9:12,13
* PARABLES OF THE VINE Ps 80:8-14; Eze 17:6-10; 19:10-14; Joh 15:1-5
* PROVERB OF Eze 18:2
* See VINE
* See VINEYARDS
* See WINE

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grape. Grape, n. a fine fruit, the fruit of the vine

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Grape (?), n. [[OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple.]] 1. 1. (Bot.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.
2. 2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
3. 3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
4. 4. (Mil.) Grapeshot.
Grape borer. (Zoöl.) See Vine borer. — Grape curculio (Zoöl.), a minute black weevil (Craponius inæqualis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes. — Grape flower, or Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme. — Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew. — Grape hopper (Zoöl.), a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. — Grape moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk. — Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the breech. — Grape sugar. See Glucose. — Grape worm (Zoöl.), the larva of the grape moth. — Sour grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; — in allusion to Æsop's fable of the fox and the grapes.