Word study
Harvest
5 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: harvest, harvesting, harvested, harvests. 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.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “harvest” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- קָצִיר qâtsîrharvesting, harvesttranslated this way 45 times of its 51 uses · Strong’s H7105Noun · Translated: harvest 39, harvest time 3, branches 3, harvesting 2Full study and all 47 verses →
Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Exodus 23:16 You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
- תְּבוּאָה tebûâhproduct, revenuetranslated this way 16 times of its 41 uses · Strong’s H8393Noun · Translated: harvest 13, produce 10, crops 3, gain 3Full study and all 40 verses →
Genesis 47:24 At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”
Leviticus 19:25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
- בָּצִיר bâtsîrvintagetranslated this way 6 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s H1210Noun · Translated: grape harvest 6, vineyard 1Full study and all 6 verses →
Leviticus 26:5 Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
Judges 8:2 But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
- קָצַר qâtsarbe shorttranslated this way 5 times of its 46 uses · Strong’s H7114Verb · Translated: reap 14, harvesters 6, short 4, harvesting 3Full study and all 45 verses →
Deuteronomy 24:19 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.
Ruth 2:9 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.”
- אָסַף âsaphgather, removetranslated this way 3 times of its 193 uses · Strong’s H622Verb · Translated: gathered 56, gather 27, assembled 13, assemble 8Full study and all 183 verses →
Deuteronomy 28:38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
Isaiah 62:9 For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”
Greek words (New Testament)
- θερισμός therismósreaping, harvesttranslated this way 11 times of its 12 uses · Strong’s G2326Noun · Translated: harvest 11, crop 1Full study and all 8 verses →
Matthew 9:37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Mark 4:29 And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
- καιρός kairósfitting season, opportunity, timetranslated this way 4 times of its 82 uses · Strong’s G2540Noun · Translated: time 44, times 9, appointed time 4, harvest time 4Full study and all 77 verses →
Matthew 21:34 When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.
Mark 12:2 At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
- θερίζω therízōI reap, gathertranslated this way 3 times of its 21 uses · Strong’s G2325Verb · Translated: reap 11, reaping 2, reaper 2Full study and all 17 verses →
Galatians 6:9 Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Revelation 14:15 Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest, for the crop of the earth is ripe.”
- καρπός karpósfruit, result, gaintranslated this way 2 times of its 63 uses · Strong’s G2590Noun · Translated: fruit 45, crop 6, crops 3, grain 2Full study and all 55 verses →
Romans 1:13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
Hebrews 12:11 No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.
How to study a word well
- 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.
- 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.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- 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.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- 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.
What the Bible says about harvest: passages by topic →
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.