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# עָמִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5995

**swath** — used 4 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

swath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5995/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמִיר: swath, row of fallen grain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5995/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] swath, row of fallen grain (hay, as Mishn., according to Vogelsteinl.c. 74f. (who is then compelled to read עֹמֶר Mi 4:12), cf. Syriac ܥܡܺܝܪ grass, SchwallyIdiot. 69);—Am 2:13 (on cart), Je 9:21 (falling behind reaper), Mi 4:12 (brought to threshing-floor), Zc 12:6 (inflammable).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cut grain (3); grain (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.13/#tree)

הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י מֵעִ֖יק תַּחְתֵּיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּעִיק֙ הָעֲגָלָ֔ה הַֽמְלֵאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ עָמִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* here! I \[am\].about.to.make.totter under you just as it.totters the cart (the) full (for itself cut.grain

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.

[Micah 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.12/#tree)

וְהֵ֗מָּה לֹ֤א יָֽדְעוּ֙ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת יְהוָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א הֵבִ֖ינוּ עֲצָת֑וֹ כִּ֥י קִבְּצָ֖ם כֶּעָמִ֥יר גֹּֽרְנָה׃

*Word for word:* and they not they.know the.thoughts of.Yahweh and not they.understand counsel his (dm).that he has.gathered.them like.(the) cut grain threshing.floor to.\[the\]

*JPS 1917:* But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they His counsel; for He hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5995.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5995/): 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).