δρέπανον
sickle
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1407 appears in the Book of Revelation — 6 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Revelation
- Revelation 14:14 δρέπανον n acc sg neut I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
- Revelation 14:15 δρέπανόν n acc sg neut Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!"
- Revelation 14:16 δρέπανον n acc sg neut He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
- Revelation 14:17 δρέπανον n acc sg neut Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
- Revelation 14:18 δρέπανον δρέπανον n acc sg neut n acc sg neut Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"
- Revelation 14:19 δρέπανον n acc sg neut The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, δρεπανον (drépanon) means “sickle.” Its uses cluster heavily in Revelation (86% of all occurrences). With 7 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Mark 4:29, it enters the text early. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1407 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 6 verses 86%
- Mark 1 verse 14%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Johannine 6 verses · 86%
- Revelation 6 verses · 86%
- Gospels 1 verse · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sickle 8×
- American Standard Version: Sickle 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sickle 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sickle 8×, A 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1407 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1407 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1407 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1407 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a sickle, a pruning-hook, a hooked vine knife, such as reapers and vinedressers use
Word origin
Origin: from drepo (to pluck)
From δρέπω drepō (to pluck ); a gathering hook (especially for harvesting): - sickle.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1407 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δρέπανον drépanon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Mark 4:29 | 7 |
| δρέπανόν drépanón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 14:15 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δρεπανον appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 7 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 16:9 δρέπανον
- 1 Samuel 13:20 δρέπανον
- Isaiah 2:4 δρέπανον
- Jeremiah 27:16 δρέπανον
- Joel 4:10 δρέπανον
- Micah 4:3 δρέπανον
- Zechariah 5:1 δρέπανον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1407) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 16:9 δρέπανον Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
- Deuteronomy 23:25 δρέπανον When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
- 1 Samuel 13:20 δρέπανον but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;
- 1 Samuel 13:21 δρέπανον yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
- Isaiah 2:4 δρέπανον He will judge between the nations, And will decide concerning many peoples; And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.
- Isaiah 18:5 δρέπανον For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
- Jeremiah 27:16 δρέπανον Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
- Joel 4:10 δρέπανον
- Joel 4:13 δρέπανον
- Micah 4:3 δρέπανον And he will judge between many peoples, And will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, Neither will they learn war any more.
- Zechariah 5:1 δρέπανον Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.
- Zechariah 5:2 δρέπανον He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1407) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
