חֶרְמֵשׁ
chermêsh · H2770 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Thing
- SickleAgriculture and farming11 verses
Meanings
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sickle
Large, curved knife with a short wooden handle (15-20 centimeters); used for cutting grain
ExamplesDeuteronomy 16:9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.
Deuteronomy 23:25 “When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you are not to use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָלַלto profane, to begin 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נוּףto wave 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- δρέπανον drépanon · G1407 · sickle, to use a sickle, to swing a sickle
- Greek δρέπανον is the direct translation equivalent for Hebrew חֶרְמֵשׁ, both denoting a curved agricultural implement used for reaping grain at harvest.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Tools001003001001017
- The word denotes a sickle, an agricultural tool used for harvesting grain and grapes.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2770. chermesh חֶרְמֵשׁ noun [masculine] sickle (on form see Ges§ 85 xii. 55) — Deu…
חֶרְמֵשׁ noun [masculine] sickle (on form see Ges§ 85 xii. 55) — Deu 16:9; Deuteronomy 23:26.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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