In Judg 15:5, we read:
And when he had set the brands on
fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up
both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
"Vineyards and olives" in the Hebrew reads כֶּ֥רֶם זָֽיִת,
literally "vineyards of olives."
While some believe that this phrase to be a later insertion to the text
(e.g., George Foot Moore, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges
[ICC; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910], 341), it is understood in TDOT that this phrase denotes olives being grown in a vineyard, commensurate with
what one finds in Jacob 5:
Metonymy is involved when Heb. (and Ugar.) kerem (krm) is used in
the general sense of “planting”—possibly in kerem
zayiṯ, “olive orchard” (Jgs. 15:5 [textually problematic]), and with more
likelihood in the diminutive karmel
I, “orchard.” (H. -P. Müller, “כֶּרֶם,” Theological Dictionary of the Old
Testament, ed. G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef
Fabry [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans], 7:320)
For more, see:
John
A. Tvedtnes on Jacob 5 and Olive Trees Being Said to Grow in a
"Vineyard"
