Numbers 13:24

Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — The narrator documents the Israelite spies' progress through Canaan immediately after they cut the grape cluster and collected fruit.

The words — קָרָא (ka.Ra') means called, and אֹד֣וֹת ('o.Dot) denotes a cluster or bunch, directly linking the place name to the harvested produce.

The thread — The Valley of Eshcol appears again in Deuteronomy 1:24 as the scouting destination and in Joshua 15:59 as a hill-country locality.

Why it lands — The verse records a historical naming convention based on observable agricultural evidence, requiring the reader to treat biblical geography as a documented landscape rather than a symbolic setting.

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The Hebrew words

לַמָּק֣וֹםla./ma.Kom<to> the/ place הַה֔וּאha./Hu'<the>/ that קָרָ֖אka.Ra'someone called נַ֣חַלNa.chal[the] wadi of אֶשְׁכּ֑וֹל'esh.KolEshcol עַ֚ל'alon אֹד֣וֹת'o.Dot[the] causes of הָֽאֶשְׁכּ֔וֹלha./'esh.Kolthe/ cluster אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-which כָּרְת֥וּka.re.Tuthey cut down מִשָּׁ֖םmi./Shamfrom/ there בְּנֵ֥יbe.Nei[the] people of יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Yis.ra.'ElIsrael

King James Version

The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.