kayits · summer; summer fruit

What it means

kayits (קַיִץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “summer; summer fruit”.

Summer; also the fruit that ripens in summer.

How to say it

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. The hot, dry season of the year, when fruit ripens.
2. The fruits that ripen in summer, like figs and grapes.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×4
• Amos×3
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1

• 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.”

• 2 Samuel 16:1

  David had gone on a little from the summit, and there was Ziba, the young man of Mephibosheth, to meet him, with a pair of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

• 2 Samuel 16:2

  The king said to Ziba, “What are these to you?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the household of the king to ride, and the bread and the summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for the exhausted in the wilderness to drink.”

• Psalms 32:4

  For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my vigor was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

• Psalms 74:17

  You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; summer and winter, you formed them.

• 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 26:1

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

• Proverbs 30:25

  the ants, a people not strong, and they prepare their food in the summer;

• 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 28:4

  And the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness, will be like an early fig before the summer, which the one who sees sees it, and while it is still in his hand he swallows it.

• Jeremiah 8:20

  The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

• Jeremiah 40:10

  As for me, look, I am living at Mizpah to stand before the Chaldeans who come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, and put them in your vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken.”

• Jeremiah 40:12

  Then all the Jews returned from all the places where they had been driven, and they came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

• Jeremiah 48:32

  More than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah! Your shoots crossed over the sea, to the sea of Jazer they reached; upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage the devastator has fallen.

• Amos 3:15

  And I will strike the winter house along with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and many houses will come to an end, declares YHWH.

• Amos 8:1

  Thus Adonai YHWH showed me: and look, a basket of summer fruit.

• Amos 8:2

  And he said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” And YHWH said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will no longer pass by him.

• Micah 7:1

  Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the grape harvest; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that my soul desired.

• Zechariah 14:8

  And it will happen on that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter it will be so.