Word Summary
amaō: to reap
Original Word: ἀμάωTransliteration: amaō
Phonetic Spelling: (am-ah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to reap
Meaning: to reap
Strong's Concordance
mow down.
From hama; properly, to collect, i.e. (by implication) reap -- reap down.
see GREEK hama
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 270: ἀμάωἀμάω,
(ῶ: 1 aorist
ἤμησα; (from
ἅμα together; hence,
to gather together, cf. German
sammeln; (others regard the beginning
ἆ as euphonic and the word as allied to Latin
meto, English
mow, thus making the sense of
cutting primary, and that of
gathering in secondary; cf.
Vanicek, p. 673)); frequent in the Greek poets,
to reap, mow down:
τάς χώρας,
James 5:4.