Lexicon
עָמִיר
a.mir
H5995
H:N-M Hebrew

sheaf

4
Occurrences
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Hebrew
Language

a.mir denotes a gathered bundle of crop stalks, used in images of loading, threshing, and fire.

The attested usage presents a.mir as a gathered crop bundle in agricultural comparisons: a cart filled with such bundles, people gathered for threshing, and material among which fire spreads. Jeremiah 9:21 contains the form, but the APB wording does not visibly isolate its contribution.

Senses in use

  1. Gathered crop bundle in agricultural imagery · dominant

    All supplied forms are masculine singular absolute nouns. In Amos 2:13 the APB renders a cart as full of “sheaves”; in Micah 4:12 it renders people gathered “like a sheaf to the threshing floor”; and in Zechariah 12:6 it places a torch of fire among “sheaves.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “sheaves” in Amos 2:13 and Zechariah 12:6 and “a sheaf” in Micah 4:12. In Jeremiah 9:21, the translation does not visibly indicate how the term is reflected.

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