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SICKLE

A handheld, curved cutting tool for harvesting standing grain (Deut. 16:9; 23:25[MT 26]). In the Early Bronze Age a sickle’s blade was constructed by inserting serrated flints into a curved wooden frame. Along with other agricultural blade tools, the “Canaanean” blade was made from a high-quality imported flint. This hard flint allowed the blades to be resharpened. Later, metal sickles with wooden handles appeared.

The sickle is symbolic of God’s wrath and fulfilled judgment in both Joel 3:13(4:13) and the NT (Mark 4:19; Rev. 14:14-19).

Bibliography. S. A. Rosen, “The Canaanean Blade and the Early Bronze Age,” IEJ 33 (1983): 15-29.

J. A. Vadnais






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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