Greek noun (neuter) · G1407
δρέπανον
drepanondrep'-an-on
sickle
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: drépanon
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1407is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1407
a gathering hook (especially for harvesting)
The King James renders it: sickle.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
drepanon is rendered "sickle". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 4:29And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
Mark 4:29δρέπανον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's eight uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sickle6
- a sickle2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- δρέπανον7
- δρέπανόν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular8N-ASN
Mark
one use
And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
- δρέπανονdrepanonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: sickle
Revelation
seven uses
And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
- δρέπανονdrepanonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a sickle
Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.”
- δρέπανόνdrepanonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: sickle
So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
- δρέπανονdrepanonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: sickle
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
- δρέπανονdrepanonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a sickle
Still another angel, with authority over the fire, came from the altar and called out in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”
- δρέπανονdrepanonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: sickle
- δρέπανονdrepanonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: sickle
So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
- δρέπανονdrepanonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: sickle
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.