Sheaf

A bundle of harvested grain stalks.

Sheaves of grain from the harvest
Sheaves of grain from the harvest ( Jakub Hałun © Wikimedia Commons) Sheaf

About Sheaf

The sheaf was a bundle made by binding together the stalks and ears of a crop that had been harvested. The binding was most often done with stalks of the grain itself.

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Key References

Genesis 37:7

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

All Scripture References (7)

Genesis (1)
Genesis 37:7

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

Psalms (2)
Psalm 126:6

He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

Psalm 129:7

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

Jeremiah (1)
Jeremiah 9:21

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Amos (1)
Amos 2:13

Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

Micah (1)
Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Zechariah (1)
Zechariah 12:6

On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.