Lees
Bible Usage:
- lees used 4 times.
- First Reference: Isaiah 25:6
- Last Reference: Zephaniah 1:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H8105 Used 4 times
(Heb. shemarim), from a word meaning to keep or preserve. It was applied to "lees" from the custom of allowing wine to stand on the lees that it might thereby be better preserved (Isaiah 25:6). "Men settled on their lees" (Zephaniah 1:12) are men "hardened or crusted." The image is derived from the crust formed at the bottom of wines long left undisturbed (Jeremiah 48:11). The effect of wealthy undisturbed ease on the ungodly is hardening. They become stupidly secure (comp. Psalms 55:19; Amos 6:1). To drink the lees (Psalms 75:8) denotes severe suffering.
Settlings of wine.
Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 25:6; Jeremiah 48:11; Zephaniah 1:12
the coarser parts of a liquor, its sediment or dregs. "Wine on the lees" means a generous, full-bodied liquor. (Isaiah 25:6) Before the wine was consumed, it was necessary to strain off the lees; such wine was then termed "well refined." (Isaiah 25:6) To drink the lees, or "dregs," was an expression for the endurance of extreme punishment. (Psalms 75:8)
LEES, noun
The grosser parts of any liquor which have settled on the bottom of a vessel; dregs; sediment; as the lees of wine.
LEESE, verb transitive To lose. obsolete [See Lose.]
LEESE, verb transitive [Latin lasus.] To hurt. obsolete