Sheaf
אֲלֻמָהStrong’s H0485alummah (a-lum-mah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alummah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sheaves”, “sheaf my” and “sheaves your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.”
Meaning
- Sheaf (as something bound)of Israel returning from exile (fig.)
How it's translated
- sheaves 1
- sheaf my 1
- sheaves your 1
- to sheaf my 1
- sheaves his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
אֲלֻמָה alummah · sheaf
1) sheaf (as something bound) 1a) of Israel returning from exile (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sheaf” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEAF, noun
plural sheaves. [Latin scopa, scopo.]
- A quantity of the stalks of wheat, rye, oats or barley bound together; a bundle of stalks or straw.
- Any bundle or collection; as a sheaf of arrows.
All definitions and other forms of “sheaf”
SHEAF, verb transitive
To collect and bind; to make sheaves.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.