What does קָצִיר (qatsir) mean in the Bible?
קָצִיר (qatsir): Harvest as severed/cut thing: emphasizes completion, gathering, and death—literal crop or figurative judgment moment.
Severed , i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop , the time , the reaper , or figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage)
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קָצִיר (qatsir): Harvest as severed/cut thing: emphasizes completion, gathering, and death—literal crop or figurative judgment moment.
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קָצִיר (qatsir): Harvest as severed/cut thing: emphasizes completion, gathering, and death—literal crop or figurative judgment moment.
The BSB source-word alignment has 54 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include the harvest (8), harvest (7), of Harvest (4), of your harvest (4), . . . (3).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 8:22. Its strongest book concentrations include Isaiah (8), Leviticus (7), Jeremiah (5), Proverbs (5).
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
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Hebrew word. Harvest as severed/cut thing: emphasizes completion, gathering, and death—literal crop or figurative judgment moment.
Harvest as severed/cut thing: emphasizes completion, gathering, and death—literal crop or figurative judgment moment.
severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage) BDB: harvesting Usage: bough, branch, harvest (man).
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Harvest symbolizes critical moments when work must be done promptly. Hosea 6:7-11
Judgment imagery tied to covenant consequences. Proverbs 10:5
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