Sheaf
עָמִירStrong’s H5995amir (a-mir)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amir is the Hebrew word usually translated “like cut grain”, “cut grain” and “among cut grain”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Swath, a row of fallen grain
How it's translated
- and like cut grain 1
- cut grain 1
- like cut grain 1
- among cut grain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Amos 1
- Micah 1
- Zechariah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 9:22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
- Amos 2:13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
- Micah 4:12But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
Hebrew dictionary
עָמִיר amir · sheaf
swath, a row of fallen grain
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.