Vintage

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(taking wine away). The vintage season a time of joy. Town people went out and lived among the vineyards in lodges and tents (Judg. 9:27²⁷And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. (Judges 9:27); Isa. 16:10¹⁰And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. (Isaiah 16:10); Jer. 25:30³⁰Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. (Jeremiah 25:30)). Grapes were gathered in baskets (Jer. 6:9⁹Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. (Jeremiah 6:9)). [WINE-PRESS.]

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The time of rejoicing when the grapes were gathered. As there were different elevations in the land, the grapes would not be all ripe at the same time. In reference to the future time of blessing for Israel it is said, “Your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time” (Lev. 26:5⁵And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. (Leviticus 26:5); Judg. 8:2²And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? (Judges 8:2); Job 24:6⁶They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. (Job 24:6); Isa. 24:13¹³When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. (Isaiah 24:13); Isa. 32:10¹⁰Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. (Isaiah 32:10); Jer. 48:32³²O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage. (Jeremiah 48:32); Mic. 7:1¹Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. (Micah 7:1); Zech. 11:2²Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. (Zechariah 11:2)). See SEASONS.