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Strong's H1612 גֶּפֶן (gephen)

Gephen means “vine” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1612 — ekstrepho (“subvert”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1612
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 53
Books 19

Strong's H1612 Quick Answer

Strong's H1612 גֶּפֶן (gephen) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gephen (gheh'-fen) n-m. 1. a vine (as twining), especially the grape [from an unused root meaning to bend] It has 53 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include vine, were, grape, and tree. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
gephen (gheh'-fen) n-m. 1. a vine (as twining), especially the grape [from an unused root meaning to bend]
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
vine, were, grape, and tree

Meaning and Definition

gephen (gheh'-fen) n-m. 1. a vine (as twining), especially the grape [from an unused root meaning to bend] KJV: vine, tree.

Original Word
גֶּפֶן
Transliteration
gephen
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1612. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1612 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gephen, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's H1612 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 53 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1612 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1612 in the Old Testament

53 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 40:9 KJV

And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

Genesis 40:10 KJV

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:

Genesis 49:11 KJV

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:

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1612.

Genesis 40:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
Genesis 40:10 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Genesis 49:11 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Numbers 6:4 Old Testament, KJV
All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
Numbers 20:5 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Deuteronomy 8:8 Old Testament, KJV
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
Deuteronomy 32:32 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Judges 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Judges 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges 13:14 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Kings 4:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
2 Kings 4:39 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Kings 18:31 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Job 15:33 Old Testament, KJV
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Psalms 78:47 Old Testament, KJV
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
Psalms 80:8 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Psalms 80:14 Old Testament, KJV
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Psalms 105:33 Old Testament, KJV
He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
Psalms 128:3 Old Testament, KJV
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Song of Solomon 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Song of Solomon 6:11 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Song of Solomon 7:8 Old Testament, KJV
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;
Song of Solomon 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 7:23 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 16:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 16:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 24:7 Old Testament, KJV
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Isaiah 32:12 Old Testament, KJV
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Isaiah 34:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 36:16 Old Testament, KJV
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;
Jeremiah 2:21 Old Testament, KJV
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?
Jeremiah 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 6:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 48:32 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 15:2 Old Testament, KJV
Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 17:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 17:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 19:10 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Hosea 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Hosea 10:1 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Hosea 14:7 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Joel 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Joel 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Joel 2:22 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Micah 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Habakkuk 3:17 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Haggai 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Zechariah 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
Zechariah 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Malachi 3:11 Old Testament, KJV
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1612, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 5 usages, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 4 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 3 usages, Old Testament
Joel 3 usages, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1612 FAQ

What does gephen (גֶּפֶן) mean?

Gephen (Strong's H1612) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "vine". gephen (gheh'-fen) n-m. 1. a vine (as twining), especially the grape [from an unused root meaning to bend]

How many times is gephen (גֶּפֶן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's H1612 across 19 books.

Where can I study gephen (גֶּפֶן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1612 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate gephen (גֶּפֶן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as vine, were, grape, and tree. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.