H2168 H2168
prune, trim (a vineyard)
A verb specific to viticultural practice: pruning grapevines. It appears in the Sabbath-year legislation ('you shall prune your vineyard,' Lev 25:3) and its suspension during the Sabbath year ('you shall not prune,' Lev 25:4). Isaiah prophesies a vineyard that 'will not be pruned or hoed' (Isa 5:6), signaling abandonment. The Spanish podarás, French tu devra prune, and German du soll prune all preserve the agricultural specificity. This is skilled labor: the careful cutting that promotes fruitfulness.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Refers to the agricultural practice of pruning vines in three contexts: command (Lev 25:3), prohibition (Lev 25:4), and abandonment (Isa 5:6, passive). The multilingual glosses uniformly render the viticultural action (prune, podarás). The word evokes the rhythm of agricultural care and its cessation—whether by law (Sabbath) or judgment (Isaiah's vineyard). 3×
AR["تَقْلِمُ", "تَقْلِمْ", "يُقَلَّمُ"]·ben["কাটা-হবে", "ছাঁটবে", "ছাঁটবে।"]·DE["[יזמר]", "du-soll-prune"]·EN["it-will-be-pruned", "you-shall-prune"]·FR["[יזמר]", "tu-devra-prune"]·heb["ייזמר", "תזמר"]·HI["काटी-जाएगी", "तू छांटेगा"]·ID["akan-dipangkas", "kamu-akan-memangkas", "kamu-pangkas"]·IT["[יזמר]", "tu-dovra-prune"]·jav["dipunpreset", "sami-pungkasi", "sira-pungkasi."]·KO["가지치지-않으리라", "너는-가지치라", "너는-가지칠지니라"]·PT["podarás", "será-podada"]·RU["будет-обрезан", "обрезай"]·ES["podarás", "será-podada"]·SW["halitapogolewa", "utakata"]·TR["budanacak", "budayacaksın"]·urd["کاٹ-چھانٹ-گا", "کاٹ-چھانٹے-گا", "کٹائی-جائے-گی"]
Related Senses
H3754 1. vineyard, cultivated grape plot (92×)H0730 1. cedar tree or wood (73×)H1612 1. vine, grapevine (55×)H3293a 1. forest, wood, thicket (55×)H5560 1. fine flour (53×)H5193 1. plant vegetation (48×)H2232 1. sow seed, plant crops (41×)H1715 1. grain, cereal crop (40×)H7114b 1. reap, harvest grain (36×)H2132 1. olive tree (34×)H8184 1. barley (34×)H2406 1. wheat (grain crop) (30×)H7070 1. reed, cane (plant) (30×)H7848 1. acacia (28×)H8328 1. root of a plant (28×)H8384 1. fig tree (25×)H5488 1. reeds, rushes (in 'Sea of Reeds') (24×)G0290 1. a vineyard (23×)G2325 1. reap, harvest a crop (21×)G4687 1. sow seed, plant (21×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
II. [זָמַר] vb. trim, prune (NH id.; relation to √ I. obscure)— Qal Impf. 2 ms. תִּזְמֹר Lv 25:3, 4 of pruning a vineyard (כֶּרֶם; H). Niph. Impf. יִזָּמֵר Is 5:6 be pruned, subj. כֶּרֶם (‖ יֵעָדֵר).