What Does Isaiah 5:2 Mean?

“And he fenced”

to grub over

“it and gathered out the stones”

properly, to be weighty; but used only in the sense of lapidation or its contrary (as if a delapidation)

“thereof and planted”

properly, to strike in, i.e., fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively)

“it with the choicest vine”

a vine stock (properly, one yielding purple grapes, the richest variety)

“and built”

to build (literally and figuratively)

“a tower”

a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers

“in the midst”

a bisection, i.e., (by implication) the center

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“a winepress”

a trough (as dug out); specifically, a wine-vat (whether the lower one, into which the juice drains; or the upper, in which the grapes are crushed)

“of it and also made”

to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave

“therein and he looked”

to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e., collect; (figuratively) to expect

“and it brought forth”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“grapes”

a grape

“and it brought forth”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“wild grapes”

poison-berries