Word study

Crop

4 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: crop, crops. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “crop” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • תְּבוּאָה tebûâhproduct, revenuetranslated this way 5 times of its 41 uses · Strong’s H8393Noun  ·  Translated: harvest 13, produce 10, crops 3, gain 3

    Leviticus 25:3 For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

    Joshua 5:12 And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.

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  • יְבוּל yebûlproducetranslated this way 2 times of its 13 uses · Strong’s H2981Noun  ·  Translated: produce 7, crops 2, possessions 1, harvest 1

    Psalm 78:46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

    Haggai 1:10 Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

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  • עֶשֶׂב esebherb, herbagetranslated this way 2 times of its 32 uses · Strong’s H6212Noun  ·  Translated: plant 9, plants 7, grass 6, like the grass 2

    Psalm 104:14 He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

    Zechariah 10:1 Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.

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  • זֶרַע zerasowing, seed, offspringtranslated this way 2 times of its 220 uses · Strong’s H2233Noun  ·  Translated: descendants 78, offspring 45, seed 34, children 10

    Deuteronomy 22:9 Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled — both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

    Jeremiah 35:9 Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • καρπός karpósfruit, result, gaintranslated this way 9 times of its 63 uses · Strong’s G2590Noun  ·  Translated: fruit 45, crop 6, crops 3, grain 2

    Matthew 13:8 Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.

    Mark 4:7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.

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  • καρποφορέω karpophoréōI bear fruittranslated this way 3 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s G2592Verb  ·  Translated: bearing fruit 3, produce a crop 2, bears fruit 1, produces a crop 1

    Mark 4:20 Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop — thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”

    Luke 8:15 But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.