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# מַגָּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4038

**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/1502/4038/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַגָּל²: sickle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4038/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sickle (Arabic مِنْجَلٌ (yet poss. Aramaic loan-word Frä133), Aramaic ܡܰܓܰܠܬܳܐ );—c. תָּפַשׂ handle, wield Je 50:16 (‖ זָרַע); c. שָׁלַח Jo 4:13 fig. of judgment.

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 (2 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: (of) a sickle (1); \[the\] sickle (1).

## In the verses

[Joel 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.13/#tree)

שִׁלְח֣וּ מַגָּ֔ל כִּ֥י בָשַׁ֖ל קָצִ֑יר בֹּ֤אֽוּ רְדוּ֙ כִּֽי־מָ֣לְאָה גַּ֔ת הֵשִׁ֙יקוּ֙ הַיְקָבִ֔ים כִּ֥י רַבָּ֖ה רָעָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* send.out \[the\].sickle (dm) it.has.grown.ripe \[the\].harvest come tread (dm) it.is.full \[the\].winepress they.are.overflowing the wine-vats (dm) \[is\].great evil their

*JPS 1917:* Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, tread ye, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

[Jeremiah 50:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.16/#tree)

כִּרְת֤וּ זוֹרֵ֙עַ֙ מִבָּבֶ֔ל וְתֹפֵ֥שׂ מַגָּ֖ל בְּעֵ֣ת קָצִ֑יר מִפְּנֵי֙ חֶ֣רֶב הַיּוֹנָ֔ה אִ֤ישׁ אֶל־עַמּוֹ֙ יִפְנ֔וּ וְאִ֥ישׁ לְאַרְצ֖וֹ יָנֻֽסוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* cut.off \[the\].sower from Babylon and \[one.who\].wields (of).a.sickle at a.time of.harvest from before the.sword of the.oppressor everyone to people his.own they.will.turn and everyone to his.own land they.will.flee

*JPS 1917:* Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest; For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4038.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4038/): 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).