One of Abraham’s allies, who dwelt with him in the valley of Mamre, and accompanied him in the pursuit of Chedorlaomer, and the other confederated kings, who pillaged Sodom and Gomorrah, and carried away Lot, Abraham’s nephew, Gen. xiv, 24. Eshcol is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “bunch of grapes.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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bunch of grapes According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
אֶשְׁכֹּל
H0812
Transliteration
ʼEshkôl
Pronunciation
esh-kole'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
6
Glosses
Eshcol.
Lexicon definition
Eshcol, the name of an Amorite, also of a valley in Palestine
Greek lexical coverage
No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry
G—
The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.
one of Abraham’s allies, who dwelt with him in the valley of Mamre, and accompanied him in the pursuit of Chedorlaomer, and the other confederated kings, who pillaged Sodom and Gomorrah, and carried away Lot, Abraham’s nephew, Gen. xiv, 24. Also the valley or brook of Eshcol was that in which the Hebrew messengers, who went to spy the land of Canaan, cut a bunch of grapes so large that it was as much as two men could carry. It was situated in the south part of Judah, Num. xiii, 24; xxxii, 9.