STRONGS NUMBER H2085


Word Summary
zag: skin (of the grape)
Original Word: זָג
Transliteration: zag
Phonetic Spelling: (zawg)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: skin (of the grape)
Meaning: the skin of a, grape
Strong's Concordance
husk

From an unused root probably meaning to inclose; the skin of a grape -- husk.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2085. zag

זָגnoun [masculine] name of some comparatively insignificant product of vine (הַיַּיִן גֶּפֶן‎), the eating of which was included in prohibition to Nazirite; skin of grape, so Thes (after Onk Mishna Maaser. 5:§ 4, Orla 1:§ 8, compare Sifre on the passage): יאֹכֵ֑ל לֹא וְעַדזָֿג֖ מֵחַרְצַנִּיםNumbers 6:4 (Late Hebrew זוג זג,‎; so called as transparent ? compare Aramaic זְגוּגִיתָאglass, Late Hebrew זַגָּגglazier (Arabic glass, is a loan-word according to Frä64); compare theory of √ in LagGes. Ath. 41, Fll.c.: but in Hebrew glass is זְכוֺכִית‎).

זָדוֺן זֶד,‎ see below זיד‎.