עָמַר ʻâmar
Meaning
to gather grain
In the King James Version: bind sheaves, make merchandise of.
Derivation: a primitive root; properly, apparently to heap; figuratively, to chastise (as if piling blows); specifically (as denominative from H6016 (עֹמֶר))
Where it is used
- Deuteronomy 21:14 And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
- Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- Psalms 129:7 unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.