שֹׂרֵקsôrêq/so-rake'/
HebrewH83213 occurrences (KJV)
a vine stock (properly, one yielding purple grapes, the richest variety)
KJV renders it: choice(-st, noble) wine. Compare H8291 (שָׂרוּק).
Where it appears
- Gen 49:11Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
- Isa 5:2He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
- Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.