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בְּאֻשִׁים

be.u.shim

sour grapes

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Strong’s H891Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

wild grapes2

In the text

Isaiah 5:2בְּאֻשִׁים
He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בְּאֻשִׁים n.[m.]pl. stinking or worthless things, wild grapes

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.