קַיִץ
qayits · kah'-yits
harvest (as the crop), whether the product (grain or fruit) or the (dry) season
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6972 (קוּץ);
harvest (as the crop), whether the product (grain or fruit) or the (dry) season
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: summer (fruit, house).
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the hand that works › to pursue the straight path
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the hand that works that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קַיִץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
20 occurrences · 20 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in summer3 · 15%
- in the summer2 · 10%
- and summer fruits2 · 10%
- of summer fruit2 · 10%
- and summer1 · 5%
- of summer fruits1 · 5%
- and summer fruit1 · 5%
- of summer1 · 5%
- summer1 · 5%
- for thy summer fruits1 · 5%
- before the summer1 · 5%
- the summer1 · 5%
- upon thy summer fruits1 · 5%
- with the summer1 · 5%
- the summer fruits1 · 5%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.