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Strong's #7796 - שׂרֵק
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- Sorek = "choice vines"
- a wadi in Palestine in which Delilah lived
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proper name, of a location in ׳נַ֫חַלשׂ Judges 16:4 (properly Wady of choice vines); — ᵐ5 Σωρηχ[κ]; probably Wady ‚urâr (GASm Geogr. 218 ff.), on north side of which is ruin Sûrîk, 3/4hour west of ‚ur±ah ( Zor±ah), Survey iii. 53 GFM on the passage.
שׂרֵק m. Isaiah 5:2; Jeremiah 2:21. שׂרֵקָה f. Genesis 49:11
(1) a shoot, a tendril (from the root שָׂרַק No. I; compare שְׂרוּקִּים); specially a nobler kind of vine, according to Abulwalid, growing in Syria, Arab. سريق and سوريق, now called in Morocco Serki, Pers. ىشمش Kishmish, with small berries, roundish, and of a dark colour; with soft and hardly perceptible stones. See Niebuhr’s Reisebeschr. vol. ii. p. 169; of his Descr. of Arabia, p. 147; and more in Oedmann, Verm. Sammlungen aus der Naturkunde, vi. p. 98, seqq.
(2) [Sorek], pr.n. of a valley, between Ashkelon and Gaza, probably so called from this kind of vine, Judges 16:4.
