Vinegar
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Vinegar in the Bible Dictionary
- (A sour wine)
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Forbidden to Nazarites
Num 6:3
3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Numbers 6:3 -
Used with food
Ruth 2:14; Ps 69:21; Prov 10:26; 25:20
14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
Ruth 2:1421 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalms 69:2126 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Proverbs 10:2620 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Proverbs 25:20 -
Offered to Christ while on the cross
Matt 27:34, 48; John 19:29; Mark 15:23
34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
Matthew 27:3448 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Matthew 27:4829 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
John 19:2923 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
Mark 15:23
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
