עָמִירʻâmîyr
swath, row of fallen grain (Micah 4:12; Amos 2:13; Jeremiah 9:21; Zechariah 12:6)
Pronunciation: aw-meer' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5995
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Jeremiah 9:22 This is what the Lord says: “Bodies will be scattered across the fields like clumps of manure, like bundles of grain after the harvest. No one will be left to bury them.”
- Amos 2:13 “So I will make you groan like a wagon loaded down with sheaves of grain.
- Micah 4:12 But they do not know the Lord’s thoughts or understand his plan. These nations don’t know that he is gathering them together to be beaten and trampled like sheaves of grain on a threshing floor.
- Zechariah 12:6 “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a flame that sets a woodpile ablaze or like a burning torch among sheaves of grain. They will burn up all the neighboring nations right and left, while the people living in Jerusalem remain secure.
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).