How many times is vine mentioned in the Bible?
The word vine appears 62 times in the King James Version, in 58 verses. Counting every form (vine, vines, vineyard, vineyards), it appears 188 times in 170 verses across 38 of the 66 books. The World English Bible uses vine 67 times (197 with every form).
Vine in the King James Version and the World English Bible
Each form of vine counted in each translation.
| Form | KJV | WEB |
|---|---|---|
| vine | 62 | 67 |
| vines | 12 | 10 |
| vineyard | 69 | 73 |
| vineyards | 45 | 47 |
| Total | 188 | 197 |
Which books mention vine most
Vine appears in 38 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Isaiah has the most (22), then Song of Solomon (13) and Jeremiah (12).
Also in: Nehemiah (5), Hosea (4), Amos (4), Exodus (3), 1 Samuel (3), Joel (3), John (3), 1 Chronicles (2), Job (2), Proverbs (2), Micah (2), Zechariah (2), Revelation (2), Joshua (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Ecclesiastes (1), Nahum (1), Habakkuk (1), Zephaniah (1), Haggai (1), Malachi (1), 1 Corinthians (1), James (1).
First and last mention of vine
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
The verse that uses it most is 1 Kings 21:6, 3 times:
And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
Where the two translations differ
5 verses match in the KJV but not in the World English Bible, and 11 verses match only in the World English Bible, usually because the other translation chose a different word there.
Numbers 6:4: counted in the KJV only
All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
Judges 11:33: counted in the KJV only
And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
Genesis 49:22: counted in the World English Bible only
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
2 Kings 25:12: counted in the World English Bible only
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
Verses with vine on our topic pages
3 verses that use vine in the World English Bible are in our topic collections.
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
On: Laziness
For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
On: Worship
Common questions
How many times is vine in the Old Testament and the New Testament?
In the King James Version, counting every form, 155 of the 188 uses are in the Old Testament and 33 in the New Testament. Vine appears in 38 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Isaiah has the most (22), then Song of Solomon (13) and Jeremiah (12).
Where is vine first mentioned in the Bible?
The first use in the King James Version is Genesis 9:20: "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:" The last is Revelation 14:19.
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Counted by Bible Says About from the full public-domain text of the King James Version (1769 edition) and the World English Bible. Verse text only: headings and psalm titles are left out. A word is a run of letters: a hyphenated name like Beer-sheba counts as two, and an apostrophe stays inside its word (LORD'S is one). Matching ignores capital letters. Data compiled 2026-10-05.