noun · neuter
drepanem
Strong’sG1407
a sickle
stem drepan-8 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δρέπανον, -ου, τό
(later form of Attic δρεπάνη, < δρέπω, to pluck), [in LXX for מַזְמֵרָה, חֶרְמֵשׁ, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1407 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddrep'-an-on
a gathering hook (especially for harvesting)
Fromfrom δρέπω (to pluck);
King Jamessickle.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also δράπανον (which see), (δρέπω) ={δρεπάνη}, δ. εὐκαμπές Refs 8th c.BC+; the usual form in Prose and Comedy texts, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 pruning-knife, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 scythe, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 curved sword, scimitar, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | drepanem | drepaneim |
| of, belonging to genitive | drepaneu | drepaneiu |
| to, for dative | drepane | drepanei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
drepane is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
drepanem8×
Mark 4:29… paradōateia tos karpos, euthuos apostelatō tem drepanem, hoti parastēatē tos therismos.… grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
Revelation 14:14… chrusouon kai en ta cheira autou drepanem oxuem.… on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
Revelation 14:15… kathorōnto epi tau nefelau; Pempasar tem drepanem su kai therizasar, hoti erchata tas …… seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has …
Revelation 14:16… tos kathorōntos epi tau nefelau tem drepanem autou epi tan gēan, kai therizita …… seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth …
Revelation 14:17… en to ourano, echarōntos kai autos drepanem oxuem.… and he too had a sharp sickle.
Revelation 14:18… fōnata fōna mega to echarōnto tem drepanem tem oxuem legarōntos; Pempasar su tem …… to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather …
Revelation 14:18… tem oxuem legarōntos; Pempasar su tem drepanem tem oxuem kai trugasar toin botruoin …… the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes …
Revelation 14:19kai balata tos angelos tem drepanem autou eis tan gēan, kai trugata …So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the …