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קָצִיר

katsir · harvest

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7105 · appears 54 times in the Bible

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What it means

katsir (קָצִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “harvest”.

Reaping; the crop and its season; also a branch.

How to say it

ka·tsir

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To cut and gather ripe grain and fruit; the season for it and what is gathered.
  2. The branches of a tree.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Harvest, reaping: the time when grain is cut and what is gathered in. It comes from the verb קָצַר, ‘reap’ (H7114). BDB also gives it the sense of ‘branch’ or the boughs of a tree.

Historical and cultural background

In reaping, the edge of the field was not to be reaped nor the gleanings gathered; they were left for the poor and the resident alien (Leviticus 19:9; 23:22). “The feast of Harvest” celebrated the firstfruits (Exodus 23:16). Ruth arrives in Bethlehem “at the beginning of the barley harvest” (Ruth 1:22).

How we translate it

“Harvest” 49 times, both for the crop and for the time of reaping (“The harvest is past, the summer is ended”, Jeremiah 8:20). In Job and the Psalms, where the word is part of a tree, it is rendered “branches” (4), and once “boughs” (Isaiah 27:11).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • harvest ×49
  • branches ×4
  • boughs ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 8:22

    While all the days of the earth remain, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.”

  • Genesis 30:14

    In the days of the wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to Leah his mother. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of the mandrakes of your son.”

  • Genesis 45:6

    For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing or harvest.

  • Exodus 23:16

    And the feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labors that you sow in the field; and the feast of Ingathering at the going out of the year, when you gather in your labors from the field.

  • Exodus 34:21

    Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall cease; in plowing time and in harvest you shall cease.

  • Exodus 34:22

    And the Feast of Weeks you shall observe for yourself, the first fruits of the harvest of wheat, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

  • Leviticus 19:9

    And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish reaping the edge of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather.

  • Leviticus 23:10

    “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land that I am giving you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

  • Leviticus 23:22

    And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish reaping the edge of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather; for the poor and for the resident alien you shall leave them. I am YHWH your Elohim.”

  • Leviticus 25:5

    What grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

  • Deuteronomy 24:19

    When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to take it; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  • Joshua 3:15

    and when those carrying the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water —and the Jordan is full over all its banks all the days of harvest—

  • Judges 15:1

    And it happened after some days, in the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, “I will go in to my wife in the room.” But her father did not let him go in.

  • Ruth 1:22

    So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned from the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

  • Ruth 2:21

    And Ruth the Moabite said, “He also said to me, ‘Cling to the young men who are mine until they have finished all the harvest that is mine.’”

  • Ruth 2:23

    So she clung to the young women of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

  • 1 Samuel 6:13

    Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping the harvest of wheat in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark and rejoiced to see it.

  • 1 Samuel 8:12

    and he will appoint for himself chiefs of thousands and chiefs of fifties, and some to plow his plowland and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and the equipment of his chariots.

  • 1 Samuel 12:17

    Is it not the harvest of wheat today? I will call to YHWH, and he will give thunder and rain; and know and see that your evil is great, which you have done in the eyes of YHWH, by asking for yourselves a king.”

  • 2 Samuel 21:9

    and he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before YHWH. The seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

  • 2 Samuel 21:10

    Rizpah daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the heavens; and she did not allow the birds of the heavens to settle on them by day, or the animals of the field by night.

  • 2 Samuel 23:13

    Three of the thirty chief men went down and came, at harvest time, to David, to the cave of Adullam, while the troop of the Philistines was camped in the Valley of Rephaim.

  • Job 5:5

    His harvest the hungry eat, and from among the thorns they take it, and the trap pants after their wealth.

  • Job 14:9

    at the scent of water it will blossom, and put forth branches like a young plant.

  • Job 18:16

    Below his roots dry up, and above his branches wither.

  • Job 29:19

    My root is open to the waters, and the dew lodges all night on my branches.

  • Psalms 80:11

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

  • Proverbs 6:8

    prepares in the summer her bread; she gathers at the harvest her food.

  • Proverbs 10:5

    He who gathers in the summer is a prudent son; he who sleeps in the harvest is a son who brings shame.

  • Proverbs 20:4

    From autumn the sluggard does not plow; he asks at the harvest, and there is nothing.

  • Proverbs 25:13

    Like the coolness of snow in a day of harvest is a faithful envoy to those who send him; and he brings back the soul of his masters.

  • Proverbs 26:1

    Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a senseless man.

  • Isaiah 9:3

    You have multiplied the nation, you have increased the joy for it; they rejoice before you as with the joy at harvest, as people exult when they divide spoil.

  • Isaiah 16:9

    Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; for on your summer fruit and on your harvest the shout has fallen.

  • Isaiah 17:5

    And it will be as when one gathers the harvest, the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears; and it will be like one who gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim.

  • Isaiah 17:11

    On the day of your planting you make it grow, and in the morning your seed you make blossom; the harvest will flee in the day of sickness and of incurable pain.

  • Isaiah 18:4

    For thus YHWH said to me: “I will be still and look from my dwelling place, like dazzling heat over the light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

  • Isaiah 18:5

    For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes an unripe grape ripening, he will cut off the tendrils with pruning knives, and the spreading branches he will remove, he will cut away.

  • Isaiah 23:3

    And on many waters was the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, its revenue; and it was the marketplace of nations.

  • Isaiah 27:11

    When its boughs dry up, they will be broken; women will come and set it on fire. For it is not a people of understanding; therefore its Maker will not have compassion on it, and the one who formed it will not show it favor.

And 14 more times.