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title: עֹמֶר — sheaf · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֹמֶר (6016), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: sheaf. BDB 1906: n.m. sheaf ag. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֹמֶר

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«עֹמֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sheaf** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 6016 · **BDB:** עֹ֫מֶר

### Glosses

a.sheaf (2); sheaf (2); sheaves (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sheaf [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6016/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. sheaf ag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6016/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 23:11 sheaf (swath, row of fallen grain, WetzstZ.f. Ethnol. 1873, 273 (Syriac Dreschtafel), ag. him VogelsteinLandwirthschaftinPal. 61 who trans. heap of sheaves);—ע׳ abs. Dt 24:19; Lv 23:11, 12, 15, cstr. v 10; fig. of food (abs.) Jb 24:10; pl. עֳמָרִים lit. Ru 2:7, 15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֹמֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6016/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 24:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/)

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עָר֣וֹם הִ֭לְּכוּ בְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וּ֝רְעֵבִ֗ים נָ֣שְׂאוּ עֹֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* naked they.go.about not clothing and hungry they.carry a.sheaf

*JPS 1917:* So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;

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[Leviticus 23:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.23.12/)

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וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֕ם בְּי֥וֹם הֲנִֽיפְכֶ֖ם אֶת־הָעֹ֑מֶר כֶּ֣בֶשׂ תָּמִ֧ים בֶּן־שְׁנָת֛וֹ לְעֹלָ֖ה לַיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.offer on the.day wave you (et) the sheaf a.male.lamb unblemished a.son its.year his to a.burnt.offering to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.

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