Deuteronomy 23:25:6Deut.23.25.W6TABWLC Deuteronomy 23:26
וְחֶרְמֵשׁ
vekhermesh
“but a sickle”
- Transliteration
- ve-kher-MESH
- Extended
- veh-kher-MEESH
- IPA
- /vəħɛrˈmeːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- but a sickle
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-kher-MESH
- sentence
ki-ta-VO be-ka-MAT re-E-kha ve-ka-TAF-ta me-li-LOT be-ya-DE-kha ve-kher-MESH lo ta-NIF al ka-MAT re-E-kha
Exegesis
The adversative vav lo tinif {וְלֹא תָנִיף | wə-lōʼ ṯa-nîp̄} “but you shall not wield” plus the noun hermesh {חֶרְמֵשׁ | ḥer-meš} “sickle” and the prepositional phrase al qemet reʻekha {עַל קֶמֶת רֵעֶךָ | ʻal qe-met rê-ʻê-kā} “upon your neighbor’s standing grain” prohibits using a harvesting implement, drawing a clear boundary between permissible gleaning and full-scale reaping.
Root and etymology
ח־ר־מ
“to reap, harvest”
In context — Deuteronomy 23:25
When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pick heads with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing crop.
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 23:25:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Deuteronomy 23:25, so the Hebrew word וְחֶרְמֵשׁ (vekhermesh) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Deut.23.25.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.23.25.W6.S1) and character.