קָצִיר

Genesis 8:22 וְ֠קָצִיר and harvest

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

Here: The grain harvest season (barley, then wheat, in spring and early summer). Together with 'seed' it gives the farmer's year from beginning to end.

Genesis 30:14 קְצִיר־ [the] harvest of

Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 45:6 וְקָצִּֽיר׃ and harvest

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Exodus 23:16 הַקָּצִיר֙ the harvest

You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

Here: The grain harvest, here the cutting of the wheat in late spring and early summer. Exodus 34:22 makes this explicit: 'firstfruits of the wheat harvest'. This is the festival later called Weeks (Shavuot).

Exodus 34:21 וּבַקָּצִ֖יר and at <the> harvest time

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

Here: 'And in harvest': the spring and early-summer reaping of barley and then wheat, when ripe grain had to be brought in before it was lost. Plowing and harvest are the two ends of the farming year and its two busiest seasons.

Exodus 34:22 קְצִ֣יר [the] harvest of

And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

Here: The reaping of grain with a sickle. Verse 21 has just said that the Sabbath must be kept even during this busy season.

Leviticus 19:9 קְצִ֣יר קְצִֽירְךָ֖ [the] harvest of, harvest your

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Leviticus 23:10 קְצִירָ֑הּ קְצִירְכֶ֖ם harvest its, harvest your

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.

Here: 'Its harvest', meaning the land's. The verb and noun share a root ('reap its reaping'). In context this is the first grain of the year, the barley.

Leviticus 23:22 קְצִ֣יר קְצִירְךָ֖ [the] harvest of, harvest your

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

Here: From the same root as "reap." It can mean the crop, the act of reaping, or the harvest season. Here it is the standing grain of the barley and wheat harvests that the festival calendar has just described.

Leviticus 25:5 קְצִֽירְךָ֙ harvest your

You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

Deuteronomy 24:19 קְצִֽירְךָ֨ harvest your

If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Here: 'Your harvest'. The crop is called the farmer's own, which makes the command that follows a real giving up of property.

Joshua 3:15 קָצִֽיר׃ harvest

Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,

Here: The grain-cutting season. In Canaan this ran from spring into early summer, barley first and then wheat. The crossing is dated to the first month, just before Passover (4:19; 5:10).

Judges 15:1 קְצִיר־ [the] harvest of

Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

Here: Harvest time, when grain was standing ripe or freshly cut in the fields. This matters for 15:4–5, where Samson sets those fields on fire.

Ruth 1:22 קְצִ֥יר [the] harvest of

So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Ruth 2:21 הַקָּצִ֖יר the harvest

Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”

Ruth 2:23 קְצִֽיר־ וּקְצִ֣יר [the] harvest of, and [the] harvest of

So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

1 Samuel 6:13 קְצִיר־ [the] harvest of

Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.

1 Samuel 8:12 קְצִיר֔וֹ harvest his

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

1 Samuel 12:17 קְצִיר־ [is] [the] harvest of

Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”

2 Samuel 21:9 קָצִיר֙ קְצִ֥יר harvest, [the] harvest of

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Samuel 21:10 קָצִ֔יר harvest

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

2 Samuel 23:13 קָצִיר֙ [the] harvest

At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

Job 5:5 קְצִיר֨וֹ׀ harvest his

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Job 14:9 קָצִ֣יר shoot[s]

at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.

Job 18:16 קְצִירֽוֹ׃ branch[es] his

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Here: Not the common qatsir 'harvest' but a second word of the same spelling meaning 'bough, branch growth'. It is singular, standing for all the leafy growth together, and it pictures the man's visible flourishing, including his descendants.

Job 29:19 בִּקְצִירִֽי׃ on branch[es] my

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

Psalm 80:11 קְצִירֶ֣הָ branch[es] its

It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

Proverbs 6:8 בַ֝קָּצִ֗יר at the harvest

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

Here: The grain harvest: barley and then wheat, roughly April to June in Israel. It was the busiest stretch of the farming year. Grain lay in the fields and on the threshing floors, and that is exactly when harvester ants carry seed away.

Proverbs 10:5 בַּ֝קָּצִ֗יר at the harvest

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

Here: 'In the harvest,' above all the grain harvest (barley, then wheat), the busiest and most urgent weeks of the farming year, when every pair of hands was needed. It sounds like qayiṣ in the first line (both have q and ṣ), which ties the two lines together.

Proverbs 20:4 בַּקָּצִ֣יר at the harvest

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Here: The grain harvest of spring and early summer, months after plowing. It is the time of plenty, when everyone else is bringing in food.

Proverbs 25:13 קָצִ֗יר harvest

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Proverbs 26:1 בַּקָּצִ֑יר at the harvest

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

Here: "At the harvest" means the grain harvest of spring and early summer, when cut grain lay in the fields and on the threshing floors. Rain then was not just unusual. It could spoil the crop and stop the work. Qatsir also echoes qayits in sound.

Isaiah 9:3 בַּקָּצִ֔יר at the harvest

You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

Here: 'At harvest.' In a farming society this was the year's high point of relief and plenty, when months of risky work finally paid off. Harvest was also when the great festivals were held.

Isaiah 16:9 קְצִירֵ֖ךְ harvest 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 17:5 קָצִ֣יר a harvest of

as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17:11 קָצִ֛יר a harvest

though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

Isaiah 18:4 קָצִֽיר׃ harvest

For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Here: Harvest season. Since v. 5 is about grapevines, it points to the late-summer ripening before the vintage, the season when heat and dew bring fruit to maturity.

Isaiah 18:5 קָצִיר֙ harvest

For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

Isaiah 23:3 קְצִ֥יר [the] harvest of

On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.

Isaiah 27:11 קְצִירָהּ֙ branch[es] its

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Here: Not the common qatsir 'harvest' but its homonym 'boughs, branchwork', used as a collective. The feminine 'its' points back to the city of v.10 (or the vegetation growing over it), pictured as a tree or vine gone dead.

Jeremiah 5:17 קְצִֽירְךָ֜ harvest your

They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”

Here: The reaped grain crop (barley and wheat), the year's labor in the fields. 'Your' is singular: Judah is spoken to as one person.

Jeremiah 5:24 קָצִ֖יר harvest

They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’

Here: The grain harvest (barley, then wheat) of roughly April to June, the year's food supply.

Jeremiah 8:20 קָצִ֖יר harvest

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

Jeremiah 50:16 קָצִ֑יר harvest

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

Jeremiah 51:33 הַקָּצִ֖יר the harvest

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”

Here: The cutting down of standing grain with sickles. For an empire it means being cut down, not gathering in good things.

Hosea 6:11 קָצִ֖יר a harvest

Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.

Joel 1:11 קְצִ֥יר [the] harvest of

Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 3:13 קָצִ֑יר [the] harvest

Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

Here: Both the standing crop and the reaping season. It usually means the grain harvest, though here it may lead into the grape harvest. The crop is the gathered nations of v. 12.

Amos 4:7 לַקָּצִ֔יר [were] to the harvest

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

Here: 'To the harvest': the reaping of grain (barley, then wheat) in spring and early summer. If the rain failed then, the ears never filled and nothing could be saved.