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ἀμάω

amáō · G270 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to mow

    To cut down grass or grain in a field

    Examples

    James 5:4 Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of armies.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
θερίζω therízō · G2325 · to reap, to harvest
Both verbs denote specific agricultural harvesting actions — 'to mow' and 'to reap, to harvest' — that are closely related, specialized terms for crop-harvesting activity, not different referents that merely share a broad topic.
In the other Testament 1 word
קָצַר qâtsar · H7114 · to be short, to be impatient
Hebrew קָצַר and Greek ἀμάω both denote the act of harvesting/reaping crops, with קָצַר covering a broader semantic range including figurative senses of shortening, grieving, and being discouraged, while ἀμάω is specifically agricultural reaping.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To mow43.13
In James 5:4, James condemns those who withhold “the pay of the laborers who mowed (amēsántōn) your fields,” describing the literal act of cutting down a crop at harvest.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἅμα háma · G260 · at the same time, together with, in addition · 10×ἀμάωamáō · G270
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ῶ: 1 aorist ἤμησα; (from ἅμα together; hence, to gather together, cf. German sammeln;…
(ῶ: 1 aorist ἤμησα; (from ἅμα together; hence, to gather together, cf. German sammeln; (others regard the beginning ἆ as euphonic and the word as allied to Latinmeto, English mow, thus making the sense of cutting primary, and that of gathering in secondary; cf. Vanicek, p. 673)); frequent in the Greek poets, to reap, mow down: τάς χώρας, Jas 5:4.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Agriculture1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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