קָצַר

Leviticus 19:9 וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶם֙ לִקְצֹ֑ר and when harvest you, to harvest

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 וּקְצַרְתֶּ֖ם and you will harvest

“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: 'And you reap': cutting standing grain with a sickle. It belongs to the 'when' clause and sets the moment the law takes effect, which is the start of harvest.

Leviticus 23:22 וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶ֞ם בְּקֻצְרֶ֔ךָ and when harvest you, when harvesting you

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: Literally "and in your (plural) reaping." It sets the time and addresses the whole nation: whenever Israel brings in its harvest. The word means cutting grain stalks with a hand sickle.

Leviticus 25:5 תִקְצ֔וֹר you will harvest

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.

Leviticus 25:11 תִקְצְרוּ֙ you will harvest

The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

Numbers 11:23 תִּקְצָ֑ר is it short

The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”

Here: Feminine to agree with 'hand'. 'Short of hand' means unable to reach or do something, powerless. The verb form can mean 'is it short?' or 'has it become short?' (KJV 'waxed short'): has God's power shrunk since Egypt?

Numbers 21:4 וַתִּקְצַ֥ר and it became short

Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

Here: 'And it became short.' The verb is feminine to agree with nepeš. Together they form the idiom 'shortness of nepeš', meaning that the people's ability to bear it ran out.

Deuteronomy 24:19 תִקְצֹר֩ you will harvest

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: Cutting standing grain with a hand sickle. Addressed to 'you' (singular), the individual Israelite farmer who owns the field.

Judges 10:16 וַתִּקְצַ֥ר and it was short

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

Here: 'And it became short.' The verb is feminine to agree with 'soul'. Used with 'soul' or 'spirit', it is an idiom for reaching the end of one's endurance: no longer able to hold out or put up with something.

Judges 16:16 וַתִּקְצַ֥ר and it was short

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

Ruth 2:3 הַקֹּצְרִ֑ים the harvesters

So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

Ruth 2:4 לַקּוֹצְרִ֖ים to the harvesters

Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.

Here: 'To the reapers', a participle used as a noun: the hired men cutting barley with sickles. The masculine plural covers the work crew as a group.

Ruth 2:5 הַקּֽוֹצְרִ֑ים the harvesters

And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

Ruth 2:6 הַקּוֹצְרִ֖ים the harvesters

The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

Ruth 2:7 הַקּוֹצְרִ֑ים the harvesters

She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

Ruth 2:9 יִקְצֹרוּן֙ they are harvesting !

Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”

Ruth 2:14 הַקּֽוֹצְרִ֔ים the harvesters

At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

1 Samuel 6:13 קֹצְרִ֥ים [were] harvesting

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 וְלִקְצֹ֣ר and to harvest

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.

2 Kings 4:18 הַקֹּצְרִֽים׃ the harvesters

And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

2 Kings 19:29 וְקִצְר֛וּ and reap

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Job 4:8 יִקְצְרֻֽהוּ׃ they harvest it

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Here: 'They reap it.' The pronoun 'it' is singular and refers back to the trouble that was sown. The harvest is the same crop that was planted: the harm they caused comes back on them. The verb form presents this as what regularly happens.

Job 21:4 תִקְצַ֥ר will it be short

Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Job 24:6 יִקְצ֑וֹרוּ they harvest

They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Psalm 89:45 הִ֭קְצַרְתָּ you have made short

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

Psalm 102:23 קִצַּ֥ר he has cut short

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

Psalm 126:5 יִקְצֹֽרוּ׃ they will reap

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

Here: "They will reap": cutting standing grain with a sickle at harvest. The Hebrew verb form looks ahead to something not yet complete. It can be read as a confident promise ("they will reap") or, following the prayer of v. 4, as a wish ("may they reap").

Psalm 129:7 קוֹצֵ֗ר a reaper

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

Proverbs 10:27 תִּקְצֹֽרְנָה׃ they will be short

The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.

Here: "Will be short" or "come up short" (feminine plural, agreeing with "years"). The verb is used for something falling short of its expected measure. Their years do not reach the full count.

Proverbs 22:8 יִקְצָר he will reap

He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Here: 'He will reap': the harvest is the certain result of the sowing. The future-pointing form presents it as what will follow, not as a mere possibility.

Ecclesiastes 11:4 יִקְצֽוֹר׃ he will reap

He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.

Here: Cutting standing grain with a sickle. Rain on cut grain could ruin it, so the cloud-watcher holds off. But he keeps holding off until the crop is lost anyway. 'Sow' and 'reap' mark the two ends of the farming year.

Isaiah 17:5 יִקְצ֑וֹר someone will reap

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 28:20 קָצַ֥ר it is [too] short

Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

Isaiah 37:30 וְקִצְר֛וּ and reap

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Here: Sowing followed by reaping means nobody will be there to strip the crop before harvest. The invader is gone.

Isaiah 50:2 הֲקָצ֨וֹר קָצְרָ֤ה ¿ really <to be short>, was it [too] short

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Here: A question marker plus the bare verb 'be short'. Put before the same verb, it adds emphasis: 'is it really, actually short?' The question expects the answer no.

Isaiah 59:1 קָצְרָ֥ה it is [too] short

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.

Here: A verb that describes a state: 'is (or has become) short'. With 'hand' it forms a Hebrew idiom for not having enough power to reach out and act.

Jeremiah 9:22 הַקֹּצֵ֖ר the reaper

Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

Jeremiah 12:13 קָצָ֔רוּ they have reaped

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

Here: 'They reaped.' The word order is sowed–wheat / thorns–reaped, which puts the two crops side by side in the middle: a harvest turned upside down.

Ezekiel 42:5 קְצֻר֑וֹת [were] short

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

Hosea 8:7 יִקְצֹ֑רוּ they will reap

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Here: "They will reap." This completes the farming picture. The harvest is the same kind of thing as the seed, but much bigger and deadly.

Hosea 10:12 קִצְר֣וּ reap

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

Here: A second plural command, "harvest!" Sowing and reaping together form the familiar proverb that you get what you plant (compare Hos 8:7, "they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind").

Hosea 10:13 קְצַרְתֶּ֖ם you have reaped

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Here: 'You have reaped.' It answers verse 12's command 'reap according to steadfast love'. Israel did reap, but the crop matched the seed: injustice.

Amos 9:13 בַּקֹּצֵ֔ר <in> the reaper

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.

Here: The one cutting the grain at the end of the previous season (spring to early summer). The preposition 'in/against' goes with 'come up to': the plowman comes right up against the reaper.

Micah 2:7 הֲקָצַר֙ ¿ is it short

Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?

Here: “Is it short?” A verb describing a state, with a question marker. Together with “spirit” it forms a Hebrew idiom for being impatient, short-tempered, or at the end of one's endurance. It may also hint at being limited in power.

Micah 6:15 תִקְצ֑וֹר you will reap

You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

Here: Cutting the ripe barley or wheat in spring and early summer. Sowing and reaping are the two ends of the grain year. The first will happen, the second will not.

Zechariah 11:8 וַתִּקְצַ֤ר and it was short

And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

Here: Part of an idiom, "my self became short," which means "I ran out of patience" or "I could bear it no longer." Hebrew calls a patient person "long of nostrils" and an impatient one "short of spirit".