Sickle

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SICKLE.—The Hebrew sickles (Deu_16:9; Deu_23:25 etc.) or reaping-hooks were successively of flint, bronze, and iron, and set in handles of bone or wood. In Palestine the flint sickle goes back to the later Stone age (Vincent, Canaan d’après t’exploration récente, 388 ff. with illust.); a specimen was found by Bliss at Lachish. Similar flint sickles, with bone hafts, have been found in Egypt. The ancient sickles were of two kinds, according as the cutting edge was plain or toothed; the modern Palestinian reaping-hook is of the latter kind and somewhat elaborately curved (illust. Benzinger, Heb. Arch.2 141). In Jer_50:16 the reaper is described as ‘he that handleth the sickle’ (maggâl, AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] ‘scythe,’ which is also wrongly given as an alternative in AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] of Isa_2:4, Mic_4:3 for ‘pruning hooks’). The same word is rendered ‘sickle’ in Joe_3:18 ‘put ye in the sickle, for the vintage is ripe’ (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ), where the context, the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] rendering, and the same figure in Rev_14:19-20 all show that the reference is to the smaller but similarly shaped grape-knife, expressly named maggâl in the Mishna, with which the grape-gatherer cut off the bunches of ripe grapes.
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

sik?'l (חרנשׁ, ḥermēsh (Deu_16:9; Deu_23:25), מגּל, maggāl; compare Arabic minjal (Jer_50:16; Joe_3:13); δρέανον, drépanon (Mar_4:29; Rev_14:14-19)): Although the ancients pulled much of their grain by hand, we know that they also used sickles. The form of this instrument varied, as is evidenced by the Egyptian sculptures. The earliest sickle was probably of wood, shaped like the modern scythe, although much smaller, with the cutting edge made of sharp flints set into the wood. Sickle flints were found at Tel el-Ḥesy. Crescent-shaped iron sickles were found in the same mound. In Palestine and Syria the sickle varies in size. It is usually made wholly of iron or steel and shaped much like the instrument used in western lands. The smaller-sized sickles are used both for pruning and for reaping.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Joe_3:13 (b) The sickle is used as a type of GOD's judging and avenging wrath. The time came when He would endure Israel's rebellion no more. He exercised the same punishment upon the nations that persecuted Israel. One day He will cut down all the wicked nations of the earth, as we read in Rev_14:14. GOD permits sinners to run their course, produce their evil fruit, and then He cuts them off, and the day of grace is ended.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.


(חֵרמֵשׁ, chermesh, a reaping-hook, Deu_16:9; Deu_23:25 [26]; מִגָּל, magal, a reaping-knife, Jer_7:16; Joe_3:13 [4], 13, σρέπανον), the instrument usually employed for cutting grain. SEE AGRICULTURE; SEE HARVEST; SEE REAPING.



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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