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PRESS, PRESSFAT.—The former occurs in the OT for the usual ‘winepress’ in Pro_3:10 (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘fats’; in modern English, ‘vats’), Isa_16:10, where alone it is retained in RV [Note: Revised Version.] , and Joe_3:13 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘winepress.’ Also Hag_2:16 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , along with the only instance of ‘pressfat’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘winefat’), as the rendering of a rare word, which RV [Note: Revised Version.] wrongly tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘vessels.’ The passage in question should run: ‘When one came to the winepress (expecting) to draw off fifty (measures [probably ‘baths’ are intended]) from the wine-trough, there were but twenty.’ For the ancient winepresses, see Wine and Strong Drink, § 2.
A. R. S. Kennedy.