δρέπανον drépanon
Meaning
a gathering hook (especially for harvesting)
In the King James Version: sickle
Derivation: from (to pluck);
Where it is used
- Mark 4:29 And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
- Revelation 14:14 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.
- Revelation 14:15 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.”
- Revelation 14:16 So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
- Revelation 14:17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
- Revelation 14:18 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.”
- Revelation 14:19 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.