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# עֹמֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6016

**sheaf** — used 8 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

sheaf [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6016/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹ֫מֶר: n.m. sheaf ag. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6016/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 23:11 sheaf (swath, row of fallen grain, WetzstZ.f. Ethnol. 1873, 273 (Syriac Dreschtafel), ag. him VogelsteinLandwirthschaftinPal. 61 who trans. heap of sheaves);—ע׳ abs. Dt 24:19; Lv 23:11, 12, 15, cstr. v 10; fig. of food (abs.) Jb 24:10; pl. עֳמָרִים lit. Ru 2:7, 15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 24:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/#tree)

עָר֣וֹם הִ֭לְּכוּ בְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וּ֝רְעֵבִ֗ים נָ֣שְׂאוּ עֹֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* naked they.go.about not clothing and hungry they.carry a.sheaf

*JPS 1917:* So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;

[Leviticus 23:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.23.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.23.12/#tree)

וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֕ם בְּי֥וֹם הֲנִֽיפְכֶ֖ם אֶת־הָעֹ֑מֶר כֶּ֣בֶשׂ תָּמִ֧ים בֶּן־שְׁנָת֛וֹ לְעֹלָ֖ה לַיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.offer on the.day wave you (et) the sheaf a.male.lamb unblemished a.son its.year his to a.burnt.offering to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6016.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6016/): 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).