חֶרְמֵשׁchermêsh

sickle (Deuteronomy 16:9; Deuteronomy 23:26)

Pronunciation: kher-mashe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2770

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 16:9 “Count off seven weeks from when you first begin to cut the grain at the time of harvest.
  • Deuteronomy 23:25 And when you enter your neighbor’s field of grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not harvest it with a sickle.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).