Lexical Definition

‎זָג‎ zâg (zawg) skin ^H:N-M
from an unused root probably meaning to inclose

husk.

• the skin of a grape

1) (meaning uncertain)
1a) name of some insignificant product of the vine, forbidden to Nazarites, perhaps the stem or skin of the grape

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎זָג‎ noun [masculine] name of some comparatively insignificant product of vine (‎גֶּפֶן הַיַּיִן‎), 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): ‎מֵחַרְצַנִּים וְעַדזָֿג֖ לֹא יאֹכֵ֑ל‎ Num 6:4 (Late Hebrew ‎זג‎, ‎זוג‎; so called as transparent ? compare Aramaic ‎זְגוּגִיתָא‎ glass, Late Hebrew ‎זַגָּג‎ glazier (Arabic glass, is a loan-word according to Frä⁶⁴); compare theory of √ in Lag^{Ges. Ath. 41}, Fl^l.c.: but in Hebrew glass is ‎זְכוֺכִית‎). ‎זֶד‎, ‎זָדוֺן‎ see below ‎זיד‎.

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