Genesis 9:20
"And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:"

Commentary

Gill's Exposition

And Noah began to be an husbandman,.... Or "a man of the earth" (c), not lord of it, as Jarchi, though he was, but a tiller of the earth, as he had been before the flood, and now began to be again; he returned to his old employment, and which perhaps he improved, having invented, as the Jews (d) say, instruments of husbandry; it may be,

the use of the plough, which made the tillage of the ground more easy; he was expert in husbandry, as Aben Ezra observes, and which, as he remarks, is great wisdom; and though he was so great a man, yet he employed himself in this way: and he planted a vineyard; not vines, but a vineyard; there were vines before scattered up and down, here one and there another, but he planted a number of them together, and set them in order, as the Jewish writers say (e); and some of them (f) will have it that he found a vine which the flood brought out of the garden of Eden, and planted it; but this is mere fable: where this plantation was cannot be said with certainty; the Armenians have a tradition that Noah, after quitting the ark, went and settled at Erivan, about twelve leagues from Ararat, a city full of vineyards; and that it was there he planted the vineyard, in a place where they still make excellent wine, and that their vines are of the same sort he planted there (g); which contradicts what Strabo (h) says of the country of Armenia, its hills and plains, that a vine will not easily grow there. (c) "vir terrie", Montanus. (d) Zohar, apud Hottinger, Smegma Oriental. p. 253. (e) Ben Melech in loc. so Abarbinel & Bechai, apud Muis, in loc. (f) Targum Jon. in loc. Pirke Eliezer, c. 23. (g) See Tournefort's Voyage to the Levant, vol. 3. p. 178. Universal History, vol. 1. p. 261. (h) Geograph. l. 11. p. 363.

Source: Gill's Exposition (Public Domain)

Hebrew Word Studies (6 words)

H2490 חָלַל
Definition:

A primitive root (comparechalah); properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "ope A primitive root (comparechalah); properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "ope

Possible Meanings:
  • profaned (semantic_range)
H5146 נֹחַ
Definition:

29(where traditional etymology), + 40 t.Genesis 5-10(not in E D);1 Chronicles 1:4;נֹחַ דָּנִאֵל וְאִיּוֺבEzekiel 14:14,20;מֵי נֹחַ= floodIsaiah 54:9(twice in verse);ᵐ5Νωε. — On history of interpretion 29(where traditional etymology), + 40 t.Genesis 5-10(not in E D);1 Chronicles 1:4;נֹחַ דָּנִאֵל וְאִיּוֺבEzekiel 14:14,20;מֵי נֹחַ= floodIsaiah 54:9(twice in verse);ᵐ5Νωε. — On history of interpretion

Possible Meanings:
  • Noah (semantic_range)
H0376 אִישׁ
Definition:

23+; constructGenesis 25:27+; suffixאִישִׁיGenesis 29:32+, etc.; pluralאִישִׁיםPsalm 141:42t. (Phoenicianאשם); usuallyאֲנָשִׁיםGenesis 12:20+, from √אנשׁq. v.; constructאַנְשֵׁיJudges 6:27+; suffixאֲנ 23+; constructGenesis 25:27+; suffixאִישִׁיGenesis 29:32+, etc.; pluralאִישִׁיםPsalm 141:42t. (Phoenicianאשם); usuallyאֲנָשִׁיםGenesis 12:20+, from √אנשׁq. v.; constructאַנְשֵׁיJudges 6:27+; suffixאֲנ

Possible Meanings:
  • man (semantic_range)
H0127 אֲדָמָה
Definition:

25+; constructאַדְמַתGenesis 47:20+;suffixאַדְמָתִיJob 31:382t. etc.;pluralאֲדָמוֺתPsalm 49:12—1ground(as tilled, yielding sustenance)Genesis 2:5,9;Genesis 3:17,23;Genesis 4:2,3,12;Genesis 5:29;Genesi 25+; constructאַדְמַתGenesis 47:20+;suffixאַדְמָתִיJob 31:382t. etc.;pluralאֲדָמוֺתPsalm 49:12—1ground(as tilled, yielding sustenance)Genesis 2:5,9;Genesis 3:17,23;Genesis 4:2,3,12;Genesis 5:29;Genesi

Possible Meanings:
  • land (semantic_range)
  • piece of ground (semantic_range)
H5193 נָטַע
Definition:

—QalPerfect3masculine singularNumbers 24:6+, 2 masculine singularנָטָ֑עֵתָּDeuteronomy 6:11, suffix 3masculine pluralנְטַעְתָּםJeremiah 12:2; 1singularנָטַ֫עְתִּיJeremiah 45:42t.,וְנָטַעְתִּ֫יJeremiah —QalPerfect3masculine singularNumbers 24:6+, 2 masculine singularנָטָ֑עֵתָּDeuteronomy 6:11, suffix 3masculine pluralנְטַעְתָּםJeremiah 12:2; 1singularנָטַ֫עְתִּיJeremiah 45:42t.,וְנָטַעְתִּ֫יJeremiah

Possible Meanings:
  • plantation (semantic_range)
  • planting (semantic_range)
  • plant (semantic_range)
H3754 כֶּרֶם
Definition:

30(feminineIsaiah 27:2)vineyard(Late Hebrewid.; AramaicכַּרְמָאZinjirliכרםDHMSendsch.58; Arabic,vine; Ethiopicvine; JenZA vii. (1892), 217compare AssyrianKarânu,vine; — etymology dubious; Thes and oth 30(feminineIsaiah 27:2)vineyard(Late Hebrewid.; AramaicכַּרְמָאZinjirliכרםDHMSendsch.58; Arabic,vine; Ethiopicvine; JenZA vii. (1892), 217compare AssyrianKarânu,vine; — etymology dubious; Thes and oth

Possible Meanings:
  • tend vineyards (semantic_range)
  • dress vines (semantic_range)
  • vinedressers (semantic_range)

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