עמר
to bind sheaves
‘to bind sheaves’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hithpael
- The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Piel, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6014 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 21:14 תִתְעַמֵּ֣ר Hithpael impf 2ms It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
- Deuteronomy 24:7 וְ/הִתְעַמֶּר conj + Hithpael wpf 3ms If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
Psalms 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew verb עמר centers on the idea of “to bind sheaves.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. Deuteronomy dominates its distribution — 2 of 3 verses. Debuting at Deuteronomy 21:14, it then recurs through the corpus. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6014 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 67%
- Psalms 1 verse 33%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: He that bindeth sheaves 1×, Maketh merchandise 1×, Thou shalt not make merchandise 1×
- American Standard Version†: He deal 1×, He that bindeth sheaves 1×, Thou shalt not deal 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Binder of sheaves 1×, Or treat her as a slave 1×, Whether he treats him as a slave 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Binding 1×, Mistreat 1×, One 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6014 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6014 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6014 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6014 across 8† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עמר I bind sheaves
עמר II deal tyrannically
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
[ עִמֵּר ] vb. Pi. denom. bind sheaves;— ψ 129:7
II. [ עָמַר ] vb. Hithp. deal tyrannically
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָמַר
- 1. to be thick, tufty.—Denom. עָמִיר.
- 2. (cmp. חָמַר I) to heap up, pile. Ukts. II, 5 והבצלים שעֲמָרָן, Var. for שחמרן.—Denom. עוֹמֶר.
- (denom. of עוֹמֶר) to bind and pile sheaves; to harvest. Peah V, 8 המְעַמֵּר וכ׳, v. כּוֹבְעָה, a. חֲרָרָה. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᶜ top חרש זרע … קצר עי׳ וכ׳ he ploughed, he sowed …, he cut, piled up, threshed &c.; Bab. Ber. 58ᵃ עמר. Sabb. VII, 2. Y. Peah IV, 18ᵈ bot. בקוצר שורה ומעמר שורה when he cuts a row and puts it up in sheaves at a time; a. fr.
- (b. h.) (with ב) to make one’s self the master of; to make use of a person as a servant. Snh. XI, 1 (85ᵇ) (expl. Deut. XXIV, 7) אינו חייב עד שיכניסנו לרשותו he is not guilty of abduction, unless he brought the person to his own grounds; (oth. opin.) עד … וישתמש בו unless he brought the person to his own grounds and made use of him; Sifré Deut. 273. e.g. Deuteronomy 24:7
עֲמַר I
- , Pa. עַמֵּר ch. as preced. Pi. Targ. Ps. CXXIX, 7.
עֲמַר II
- (Syr. עמר P. Sm. 2918; Arab. ʿamar; cmp. עמד) to stay, dwell. Targ. Prov. XXX, 28 עָמְרָא (ed. Lag. a. oth. עמדא). Ib. XXV, 24 מעמר ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. מֶעְמַד).
עֹמֶר
- , pl. עְמָרִים, v. עוֹמֶר.
עֲמַר III
- (עמר I, cmp. עָמִיר a. אִימַּר) = h. צֶמֶר, wool. Targ. Ps. XXXIX, 12, v. גַּרְדֵּם. Targ. Deut. XXII, 11. Targ. Lev. XIII, 48; a. fr.—Ḥag. 15ᵇ, v. יוֹרֶה II. B. Bath. 74ᵃ, a. e. גבבא דע׳, v. גְּבָבָא. Yoma 71ᵇ; Zeb. 18ᵇ; a. fr.—גופנא(ד) ע׳ cotton, v. גּוּפְנָא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H6014 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/הִתְעַמֶּר | Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 24:7 | 1 |
| מְעַמֵּֽר | Verb, Piel, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 129:7 | 1 |
| תִתְעַמֵּ֣ר | Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 21:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6014, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
