Vine

The fruit of the grape-vine. The general Hebrew term for ripe grapes when not in clusters is

Grapes are referred to in the Bible and Talmud in symbolical senses. As grapes can not be found after vintage, neither can the good and upright man be discovered by diligent searching in Israel (Micah 7:1,2). "The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's tẹeth are set on edge" (Ezekiel 18:2); "When the vintagers come to thee they will not leave even the grape-gleanings" (Jeremiah 49:9, Hebr.); that is, when the enemy comes he will carry off everything. A man who marries his daughter to a scholar ("talmid ḥakam") is like one who mingles vine grapes with vine grapes, but he who marries his daughter to an ignorant man ("'am ha-areẓ") is like one who mingles vine grapes with the berries of the thorn-bush (Pes. 49a). According to R. Aibu, the forbidden fruit which Eve ate was that of the vine (Gen. R. 19:8).