What does תִּירוֹשׁ (tiyrwōš) mean in the Bible?
New wine names grape-harvest produce that often appears beside grain and oil. Deuteronomy places the gathered produce within Israel's promised seasonal rain and its summons to love and serve the Lord.
Hebrew · H8492
תִּירוֹשׁ
New wine names grape-harvest produce that often appears beside grain and oil. Deuteronomy places the gathered produce within Israel's promised seasonal rain and its summons to love and serve the Lord.
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תִּירוֹשׁH8492
Pronunciationtiyrwōš
What does תִּירוֹשׁ (tiyrwōš) mean in the Bible?
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render H8492?
The BSB source-word alignment has 38 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include new wine (14), and new wine (10), The new wine (4), or new wine (2), with new wine (2).
Where does תִּירוֹשׁ (tiyrwōš) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 27:28. Its strongest book concentrations include Deuteronomy (7), Hosea (6), Nehemiah (5), Isaiah (4).
What This Word Actually Means
New wine names grape-harvest produce that often appears beside grain and oil. Deuteronomy places the gathered produce within Israel's promised seasonal rain and its summons to love and serve the Lord. Hosea exposes a failure to acknowledge the giver: grain, new wine and oil came from the Lord, yet His gifts were associated with devotion to Baal. Psalm 4 describes joy from God as greater than the joy of abundant grain and new wine.
These passages recognize real provision while refusing to let plentiful produce become the final measure of life with God. The harvest noun does not establish the chemical condition of every drink named, nor does it turn every crop loss into evidence against a modern household. Its teaching force emerges from the stated promise, accusation or prayer around the produce.
How the Bible Uses It
New wine accompanies seasonal provision, Hosea's charge of misattributed gifts and the psalmist's greater joy in God. Harvest abundance remains meaningful without becoming a comprehensive test of faith or an answer to every question about drinking.
- Deut.11.14
Then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
Gathering grain, new wine and oil follows the promised seasonal rain within Israel's call to love and serve the Lord and its warning against turning to other gods.
- Hos.2.8
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
The Lord identifies Himself as giver of the grain, new wine and oil that were not acknowledged, alongside silver and gold put into service for Baal.
- Ps.4.7
You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.
The speaker's joy from God exceeds the joy of abundant grain and new wine, followed by peaceful sleep grounded in the Lord's provision of safety.
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itnew wine14×Numbers 18:12, Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 11:14, Deuteronomy 14:23
and new wine10×Genesis 27:28, Genesis 27:37, Deuteronomy 33:28, 2 Kings 18:32
The new wine4×Isaiah 24:7, Isaiah 62:8, Isaiah 65:8, Joel 1:10
or new wine2×Deuteronomy 12:17, Deuteronomy 28:51
with new wine2×Proverbs 3:10, Joel 2:24
and My new wine1×Hosea 2:9
and of our new wine1×Nehemiah 10:37
and the new wine1×Hosea 9:2
my wine1×Judges 9:13
to the new wine1×Hosea 2:22
you will tread grapes1×Micah 6:15
Show sample aligned rows
Genesis 27:28וְתִירֹֽשׁ׃toand new wineConjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singularGenesis 27:37וְתִירֹ֖שׁtoand new wineConjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singularNumbers 18:12תִּיר֣וֹשׁtonew wineNoun - masculine singularDeuteronomy 7:13וְתִֽירֹשְׁךָ֣tonew wineConjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularDeuteronomy 11:14וְתִֽירֹשְׁךָ֖tonew wineConjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularDeuteronomy 12:17וְתִֽירֹשְׁךָ֣toor new wineConjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularDeuteronomy 14:23תִּֽירֹשְׁךָ֣tonew wineNoun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularDeuteronomy 18:4תִּֽירֹשְׁךָ֣tonew wineNoun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularDeuteronomy 28:51תִּיר֣וֹשׁtoor new wineNoun - masculine singularDeuteronomy 33:28וְתִיר֑וֹשׁtoand new wineConjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowGenesis 27:28
Aligned rows38
Books represented16
Genesis2Numbers1Deuteronomy7Judges12 Kings12 Chronicles2Nehemiah5Psalms1Proverbs1Isaiah4Jeremiah1Hosea6Joel3Micah1Haggai1Zechariah1
Source forms
הַתִּיר֣וֹשׁ5xhat·tî·rō·wōšNehemiah 5:11, Nehemiah 10:39, Nehemiah 13:5, Hosea 2:22
וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ4xwə·ṯî·rō·wōšHosea 4:11, Hosea 9:2, Micah 6:15, Zechariah 9:17
תִּיר֣וֹשׁ3xtî·rō·wōšNumbers 18:12, Deuteronomy 28:51, Nehemiah 10:37
וְהַתִּיר֣וֹשׁ2xwə·hat·tî·rō·wōšHosea 2:8, Joel 2:19
וְתִֽירֹשְׁךָ֣2xwə·ṯî·rō·šə·ḵāDeuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 12:17
תִּיר֖וֹשׁ2xtî·rō·wōšIsaiah 24:7, Joel 1:10
תִּֽירֹשְׁךָ֣2xtî·rō·šə·ḵāDeuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 18:4
הַתִּירוֹשׁ֙1xhat·tî·rō·wōšIsaiah 65:8
Parsing patterns
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular12xGenesis 27:28, Genesis 27:37, Deuteronomy 33:28, 2 Kings 18:32
Noun - masculine singular8xNumbers 18:12, Deuteronomy 28:51, 2 Chronicles 31:5, Nehemiah 10:37
Article | Noun - masculine singular6xNehemiah 5:11, Nehemiah 10:39, Nehemiah 13:5, Isaiah 65:8
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular3xDeuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 11:14, Deuteronomy 12:17
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular3xNehemiah 13:12, Hosea 2:8, Joel 2:19
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular2xDeuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 18:4
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular1xHosea 2:9
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural1xPsalms 4:7
Using This Word Well
Be careful not to...
- Make room for gratitude and for honest distress when provision is scarce, without using harvest size to rank people's trust.
- Respect a person's decision not to drink; this lexical study is not individualized guidance about alcohol use.
Avoid claiming...
- The noun does not guarantee one fermentation condition in every passage, since its contextual uses and warnings do not supply a chemical measurement.
- Abundant new wine does not establish superior faith, because Psalm 4 grounds greater joy in God rather than the amount of produce.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew word. Fresh, unfermented juice newly pressed from grapes; rarely extended to fermented wine itself.
Source Gloss
must or fresh grape-juice (as just squeezed out); by implication (rarely) fermented wine
Extended definitionSource: Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon + Brown-Driver-Briggs
Fresh, unfermented juice newly pressed from grapes; rarely extended to fermented wine itself.
must or fresh grape-juice (as just squeezed out); by implication (rarely) fermented wine BDB: must Usage: (new, sweet) wine.
Grammatical Forms
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Word Origins
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For the Preacher and Teacher
Hosea makes the origin of provision decisive. The people fail to acknowledge that the Lord gave the grain, new wine and oil; the surrounding accusation shows gifts redirected into an unfaithful relationship with other gods. Deuteronomy likewise places the harvest within Israel's relationship to the Lord, naming love, service and the danger of turning aside. Psalm 4 takes another step by confessing a joy greater than the joy of an abundant harvest.
The study should preserve all three movements instead of reducing the noun to a favorable label for a drink or a formula for prosperity. Produce can be received gratefully and used faithfully, yet its abundance is not the whole measure of joy or security. A teacher should also resist judging contemporary crop failure from Hosea's particular indictment, which names its recipients and their conduct rather than exposing every farmer's private spiritual condition.
Anchor passage
Hos.2.8
Doctrinal connections
- Deuteronomy 11:13-16 places rain and gathered produce alongside love for the Lord and a warning against other gods.
- Hosea 2:8-9 contrasts the Lord's gift of produce with failure to acknowledge Him and announces its withdrawal.
- Psalm 4:6-8 locates greater joy and peaceful rest in the Lord rather than in abundant grain and new wine.
- Numbers 18:12-13 assigns the finest produce offered as firstfruits to the priestly household under the stated holy-use instructions.
- Joel 2:24-26 announces renewed grain, new wine and oil and directs the restored people to praise the Lord.
- Hosea 4:10-12 includes wine and new wine in a charge concerning lost understanding and abandonment of the Lord.
The Hebrew harvest term is commonly translated new wine and is often grouped with grain and oil. Its licensed range and Hosea's warning do not justify declaring every occurrence chemically identical or treating the adjective new in an English translation as a laboratory finding.
From Old to New Testament
The new-wine image in Mark 2:22 belongs to Jesus' fasting and bridegroom discussion and uses Greek wording. Comparison can attend to wine and containers while preserving that argument; the Hebrew harvest term does not determine every detail of the Gospel image or supply a universal drinking policy.