Lexical Summary maggal: a sickle Original Word: מַגָּלTransliteration: maggal Phonetic Spelling: (mag-gawl') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a sickle Meaning: a sickle Strong's Concordance sickle From an unused root meaning to reap; a sickle -- sickle. Brown-Driver-Briggs H4038. maggal מוֺלֶ֫דֶת noun feminine kindred, birth, offspring; — ׳מ construct Leviticus 18:9, 11; suffix מוֺלַדְתִּי Genesis 24:4 3t.; etc.; plural suffix מוֺלְדוֺתַיִךְ Ezekiel 16:4; מֹלְדֹתַיִךְ 16:3; — 1 kindred Genesis 12:1 ("" אביך בית ארצך,), 24:4 ("" ארץ), Numbers 10:30 ("" id.), Genesis 31:3 ("" אבותיך ארץ), 43:7 (all J); "" עַם Esther 2:10, 20; 8:6; especially מ ׳אֶרֶץ land of one's kindred Genesis 11:28; 24:7 (both J), 31:13 (E), Jeremiah 22:10; 46:16; Ezekiel 23:15; Ruth 2:11. 2 plural circumstances of birth, birth (figurative of origin of Jerusalem) וּמ ׳מְכֹרֹתַיִךְ הַכְּנַעֲנִי מֵאֶרֶץ Ezekiel 16:3, compare 16:4. 3 (female) offspring, one born Leviticus 18:9 (twice in verse), begotten 18:11 (all H); collective = issue, offspring הוֺלַ֫דְתָּ אֲשֶׁר מוֺלַדְתְּךָ Genesis 48:6 (P). מַגָּל noun [masculine] sickle (Arabic (yet possibly Aramaic loan-word Frä133), Aramaic ); — with תָּפַשׂ handle, wield Jeremiah 50:16 ("" זָרַע); with שָׁלַח Joel 4:13 figurative of judgement. |
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