Winepress. Numbers 18:27, Deuteronomy 15:14, Judges 7:25, Hosea 9:2. The wine-presses of the Jews consisted of two receptacles or vats placed at different elevations, in the upper one of which the grapes were trodden, Isaiah 63:3, Lamentations 1:15, Job 24:11, while the lower one received the expressed juice. The two vats are mentioned together only in Joel 3:13 : "The press is full: the fats overflow"—the upper vat being full of fruit, the lower one overflowing with the must. The two vats were usually hewn out of the solid rock. Isaiah 5:2, margin; Matthew 21:33. Ancient wine-presses, so constructed, are still to be seen in Palestine.