2001 Translation

DREPANA, drepana

Sounds Like: dreh-PAH-nah

Translations: sickles, pruning hooks

From the root: ΔΡΕΠΑΝΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to agricultural tools with a curved blade, typically used for cutting grain (a sickle) or pruning vines and branches (a pruning hook). It is used in contexts related to harvesting or preparing land.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1159 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Isaiah — 2:4
• Joel — 4:10, 4:13

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 7:94

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 39:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 109:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Isaiah — 2:4
• Micah — 4:3
• Joel — 3:10, 3:13

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΡΕΠΑΝΟΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΔΡΕΠΑΝ — sickle, a sickle, pruning hook, a pruning hook
• ΔΡΕΠΑΝΟ — sickle, a sickle, pruning hook, a pruning hook
• ΔΡΕΠΑΝΟΙΣ — with sickles, with pruning hooks, with reaping hooks
• ΔΡΕΠΑΝΟΝ — sickle, a sickle
• ΔΡΕΠΑΝΩ — (to) a sickle, (to) the sickle, (to) a pruning hook, (to) the pruning hook

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