עָמִיר
amir · sheaf
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5995 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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amir (עָמִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sheaf”.
A bundle of cut grain.
How to say it
a·mir
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A bundle of reaped stalks.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sheaves ×3
- like a sheaf ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 9:22
Speak: “Thus declares YHWH: ‘The corpses of human beings will fall like dung on the face of the field, and like a sheaf behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.’”
- Amos 2:13
Look, I am making the ground creak under you, as the cart creaks that is full of sheaves.
- Micah 4:12
But they do not know the thoughts of YHWH, and they do not understand his counsel, for he has assembled them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
- Zechariah 12:6
On that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a brazier of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire among sheaves; and they will devour, on the right and on the left, all the peoples around; and Jerusalem will again dwell in its place, in Jerusalem.