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# חֶרְמֵשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2770

**sickle** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sickle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2770/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶרְמֵשׁ: sickle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2770/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sickle (on form v. Ges§ 85 xii. 55)—Dt 16:9; 23:26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a sickle (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 16:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.9/#tree)

שִׁבְעָ֥ה שָׁבֻעֹ֖ת תִּסְפָּר־לָ֑ךְ מֵהָחֵ֤ל חֶרְמֵשׁ֙ בַּקָּמָ֔ה תָּחֵ֣ל לִסְפֹּ֔ר שִׁבְעָ֖ה שָׁבֻעֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* seven weeks you.will.count for yourself from when.begins a.sickle in the.standing grain you.will.begin to count seven weeks

*JPS 1917:* Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.

[Deuteronomy 23:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.26/#tree)

כִּ֤י תָבֹא֙ בְּקָמַ֣ת רֵעֶ֔ךָ וְקָטַפְתָּ֥ מְלִילֹ֖ת בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וְחֶרְמֵשׁ֙ לֹ֣א תָנִ֔יף עַ֖ל קָמַ֥ת רֵעֶֽךָ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) you.will.go in the.standing.grain your.neighbor your and you.will.pluck.off ears.of.corn with hand your and a.sickle not you.will.wield on the.standing.grain your.neighbor your

*JPS 1917:* When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2770/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).