UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: δρέπανον; -ου

Sense 1: sickle

Semantic entry: 6.5

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Instruments Used in Agriculture and Husbandry

Definition: a large, curved knife employed in cutting ripe grain or grapes

Notes: Where there is no receptor language term for sickle, one may often employ a descriptive phrase such as ‘a knife for harvesting grain’ or ‘a curved knife for cutting grain.’

Further resources: realia:1.1.6

Show passage in OET: MRK 4:29

OET-RV MRK 4:29

29 Then when it’s ripe, the harvester is sent in because it’s ready for harvest.”

OET-LV MRK 4:29

29 But whenever it _may _give _over the fruit, immediately he _is _sending _out the sickle because the harvest has _presented.

Show passage in OET: REV 14:14

OET-RV REV 14:14

14 Then I looked and wow, there was a white cloud, and someone who looked like a human was sitting on the cloud with a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle (harvesting tool) in his hand.

OET-LV REV 14:14

14 And I _looked, and see, a_cloud white, and on the cloud sitting one similar the_son of _Man, having on the head of _him a_crown golden, and in the hand of _him a_sickle sharp.

Jump to OET MRK 4:29 section.

Jump to OET REV 14:14 section.

All 7 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: OET MRK 4:29

REV: OET REV 14:14–19

Sense 2: to use a sickle, to swing a sickle, to begin to harvest

Semantic entry: 43.17

Semantic domains: Agriculture

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to throw a sickle) to begin to harvest a crop by cutting ripe grain with a sickle

Notes: In OET REV 14:16 and OET REV 14:19 this idiom occurs in a figurative context, and therefore it may be necessary in some languages to speak of ‘harvesting’ rather than using a phrase which mentions the literal use of a sickle.

Collocations: βάλλω τὸ δρέπανον

Show passage in OET: REV 14:16

OET-RV REV 14:16

16 So the one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was harvested.

OET-LV REV 14:16

16 And throw the one sitting on the cloud the sickle of _him on the earth, and was _reaped the earth.

Show passage in OET: REV 14:19

OET-RV REV 14:19

19 So the messenger swung his sickle across the earth and harvested the grapevine of the earth, and he threw the grapes into the great wine-pressing pit which is God’s anger.

OET-LV REV 14:19

19 And throw the messenger the sickle of _him to the earth, and picked the vine of _the earth, and throw them into the wine-press of _the rage of_ the _god the great.

Jump to OET REV 14:16 section.

Jump to OET REV 14:19 section.

Sense 3: to use a sickle, to swing a sickle, to begin to harvest

Semantic entry: 43.17

Semantic domains: Agriculture

Definition: (idioms, literally: to send a sickle) to begin to harvest a crop by cutting ripe grain with a sickle

Notes: In OET REV 14:15 and OET REV 14:18 this idiom occurs in a figurative context, and therefore it may be necessary in some languages to speak of ‘harvesting’ rather than using a phrase which mentions the literal use of a sickle.

Collocations: ἀποστέλλω τὸ δρέπανον; πέμπω τὸ δρέπανον

Show passage in OET: MRK 4:29

OET-RV MRK 4:29