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Strong's #1407 - δρέπανον
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- a sickle, a pruning-hook, a hooked vine knife, such as reapers and vinedressers use
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δρέπᾰνον, τό, also δράπανον
(q. v.), (δρέπω) = δρεπάνη, δ. εὐκαμπές Od. 18.368; χαλκέοις ἤμα δ. S. Fr. 534;
1. the usual form in Prose and Com., Hdt. 1.125, etc.; δ. θεριστικόν PMagd. 8.6 (iii B. C.).
2. pruning-knife, Pl. R. 333d.
3. scythe, X. Cyr. 6.1.30.
4. curved sword, scimitar, Hdt. 5.112, 7.93, Ar. Ra. 576.
δρέπανον, δρεπανου, τό (equivalent to δρεπάνη, from δρέπω, to pluck, pluck off), a sickle, a pruning-hook, a hooked vine-knife, such as reapers and vine-dressers use: Mark 4:29; Revelation 14:14-19. (Homer and subsequent writings; the Sept..)
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δρέπανον , -ου , τό
(later form of Attic δρεπάνη , < δρέπω , to pluck),
[in LXX for מַזְמֵדָה , H2770, etc.;]
a sickle, pruning-hook; Mark 4:29, Revelation 14:14-19.†
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P Magd 8.6 (B.C. 218) δρέπανον θεριστικὸν οὗ τιμὴ (δραχμαὶ) β ̄, ";a sickle for reaping worth 2 drachmae,"; P Petr II. 33.A. .16 καὶ φελίου καὶ δρεπάνου. In two (apparently Jewish or Jewish Christian) inscrr. from Phrygia we find δρέπανον used in connexion with an imprecation—C. and B. ii. p. 565, no. 466, ἐὰν δέ τις αὐτῶν μὴ φοβηθῇ τούτων τῶν καταρῶν, τὸ ἀρᾶς δρέπανον εἰσέλθοιτο εἰς τὰς οἰκήσις αὐτῶν καὶ μηδίναν ἐνκαταλείψετο : cf. ib. p. 652, no. 563. MGr δρεπάνι.
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