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Sickle

Of the Egyptians resembled that in modern use. The ears of corn were cut with it near the top of the straw. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H2770, H4038, G1407
Hebrew
חֶרְמֵשׁ
Greek
δρέπανον · drepanon

Strong’s and original-language information

H2770

חֶרְמֵשׁ

Glosses: sickle

Indexed occurrences: 2

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

H4038

מַגָּל

Glosses: sickle

Indexed occurrences: 2

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G1407

δρέπανον · drepanon

Glosses: sickle

δρέπανον, -ου, τό (later form of Attic δρεπάνη, δρέπω, to pluck), [in LXX for מַזְמֵדָה, חֶרְמֵשׁ, etc. ; ] a sickle, pruning-hook;

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Sickle

Of the Egyptians resembled that in modern use. The ears of corn were cut with it near the top of the straw. There was also a sickle used for warlike purposes, more correctly, however, called a pruning-hook (Deut. 16:9; Jer. 50:16, marg., "scythe;" Joel 3:13; Mark 4:29).

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

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