Lexical Definition

‎מַגָּל‎ maggâl (mag-gawl') sickle ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to reap

sickle.

• a sickle

1) sickle

See Greek: δρέπανον

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מוֺלֶ֫דֶת‎ noun feminine kindred, birth, offspring; — ‎׳‎‎מ‎ construct Lev 18:9; Lev 18:11 suffix ‎מוֺלַדְתִּי‎ Gen 24:4 + 3 t.; etc.; plural suffix ‎מוֺלְדוֺתַיִךְ‎ Ezek 16:4 ‎מֹלְדֹתַיִךְ‎ vEzek 16:3 —

1. kindred Gen 12:1 (|| ‎ארצך‎, ‎בית אביך‎), Gen 24:4 (|| ‎ארץ‎), Num 10:30 (|| id.), Gen 31:3 (|| ‎ארץ אבותיך‎), Gen 43:7 (all J); || ‎עַם‎ Esth 2:10; Esth 2:20; Esth 8:6 especially ‎׳‎‎אֶרֶץ מ‎ land of one's kindred Gen 11:28; Gen 24:7 (both J), Gen 31:13 (E), Jer 22:10; Jer 46:16; Ezek 23:15; Ruth 2:11.

2. plural circumstances of birth, birth (figurative of origin of Jerusalem) ‎מֵאֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי‎ ‎׳‎‎מְכֹרֹתַיִךְ וּמ‎ Ezek 16:3, compare vEzek 16:4.

3. (female) offspring, one born Lev 18:9 (twice in verse), begotten vLev 18:11 (all H); collective = issue, offspring ‎מוֺלַדְתְּךָ אֲשֶׁר הוֺלַ֫דְתָּ‎ Gen 48:6 (P).

‎מַגָּל‎ noun [masculine] sickle (Arabic (yet possibly Aramaic loan-word Frä¹³³), Aramaic ); — with ‎תָּפַשׂ‎ handle, wield Jer 50:16 (|| ‎זָרַע‎); with ‎שָׁלַח‎ Joel 4:13* figurative of judgement.

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