קַ֫יִץ

Genesis 8:22 וְקַ֧יִץ and summer

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Here: The hot, dry late-summer season when figs and grapes ripen; the same word can mean 'summer fruit' itself (Amos 8:1–2).

2 Samuel 16:1 קַ֖יִץ summer fruit

When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

Here: Literally 'summer', meaning the produce of the late-summer harvest, chiefly figs. Since it is counted in hundreds alongside raisin cakes, it most likely means cakes of dried figs or units of fig fruit.

2 Samuel 16:2 וְהַקַּ֙יִץ֙ and the summer fruit

“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

Psalm 32:4 קַ֣יִץ summer

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Here: 'Summer', the rainless dry season in Israel, when the land browns and plants wither. His body is like a field at the end of August.

Psalm 74:17 קַ֥יִץ summer

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

Proverbs 6:8 בַּקַּ֣יִץ in the summer

it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

Here: The hot, dry part of the year (roughly June–September in Israel), when the last crops and fruit were brought in. To the first hearers it meant the season of plenty, before the autumn and winter rains.

Proverbs 10:5 בַּ֭קַּיִץ in the summer

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

Here: 'In the summer,' the hot, dry late season when figs, grapes and other summer fruit ripen. For farmers it was the final gathering window before the year turned. The word can also mean the summer fruit itself, so the hearer pictures the season and its crop together.

Proverbs 26:1 בַּקַּ֗יִץ in the summer

Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.

Here: "In the summer" means the hot, rainless months (roughly July to September), when figs and grapes were gathered. Snow then would be unheard of, a picture of something entirely out of its time.

Proverbs 30:25 בַקַּ֣יִץ in the summer

The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

Isaiah 16:9 קֵיצֵ֛ךְ summer fruit your

So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

Isaiah 28:4 קַ֔יִץ summer

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.

Jeremiah 8:20 קָ֑יִץ summer

“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

Jeremiah 40:10 וְקַ֜יִץ and summer fruit

As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”

Jeremiah 40:12 וָקַ֖יִץ and summer fruit

they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.

Jeremiah 48:32 קֵיצֵ֥ךְ summer fruit your

I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

Amos 3:15 הַקָּ֑יִץ the summer

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

Here: The hot, dry season, and also the late-summer fruit harvest (as in Amos 8:1–2). Paired with 'winter', it covers the whole year: the rich had a house for every season.

Amos 8:1 קָֽיִץ׃ summer fruit

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

Here: The word for the hot season, and also for the crop picked in it, chiefly figs. This was the last harvest of the farming year. Here the word itself carries the message: in the next verse God answers with qets, 'end', which sounds almost the same.

Amos 8:2 קָ֑יִץ summer fruit

“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

Here: The late-summer crop, mainly figs, picked at the very end of the farming year. This is the word the whole vision turns on, because it sounds almost the same as qēṣ, “end.”

Micah 7:1 קַ֔יִץ summer fruit

Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

Here: The late-summer crop, especially figs, picked in August and September. Together with the previous word: 'the summer-fruit harvest' that is already over.

Zechariah 14:8 בַּקַּ֥יִץ in the summer

And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.

Here: The long, rainless hot season, when almost every stream in Israel dries up.