Sickle imagery uses the cutting tool of harvest to picture completion, ripeness, ingathering, and especially the decisive harvest of judgment.
Sickle imagery uses the cutting tool of harvest to picture completion, ripeness, ingathering, and especially the decisive harvest of judgment.
A harvest-instrument motif in which the sickle or reaping hook signifies the moment when ripeness has arrived and a divine or human harvester cuts, gathers, separates, or executes judgment.
These examples show how Sickle, Reaping-Hook, and Harvest-Cutting Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
begin to put the sickle to the corn
The sickle marks the beginning of harvest time.
thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand
Harvest boundaries distinguish hand-plucking from tool-based reaping.
him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest
The sickle represents ordinary agricultural labor disrupted by judgment.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe
The sickle pictures decisive judgment when nations are ripe for cutting.
immediately he putteth in the sickle
The sickle marks the appointed moment of harvest after growth.
having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle
The sharp sickle identifies the enthroned harvester in apocalyptic judgment.
Thrust in thy sickle, and reap
The command to use the sickle signals that the earths harvest is ripe.
he... thrust in his sickle on the earth
The act of sickle-reaping pictures decisive divine execution.
he also having a sharp sickle
A second angel with a sickle intensifies the harvest-judgment scene.
the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth
The sickle gathers the vine of the earth for judgment.
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