Sickle
מַגָּלStrong’s H4038maggal (mag-gal)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maggal is the Hebrew word usually translated “sickle”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Sickle
How it's translated
- a sickle 1
- sickle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Joel 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַגָּל maggal · sickle
sickle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sickle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SICKLE, noun
[Gr. Vaiclh, Vagclon; Latin sicula, from the root of seco, to cut.]
A reaping hook; a hooked instrument with teeth; used for cutting grain. Thou shalt not move a sickle to thy neighbor's standing corn.
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.