קָצַר
qâtsar · kaw-tsar'
to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)
- to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
- especially to harvest (grass or grain)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.
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
- 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
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to pursue the straight path of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָצַר 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
49 occurrences · 49 OT · 0 NT · 46 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the reapers3 · 9%
- and when ye reap2 · 6%
- over the reapers2 · 6%
- ye, and reap2 · 6%
- reap2 · 6%
- they reap2 · 6%
- shall reap2 · 6%
- unto you, and shall reap1 · 3%
- when thou reapest1 · 3%
- thou shalt not reap1 · 3%
- neither reap1 · 3%
- waxed short1 · 3%
- was much discouraged1 · 3%
- when thou cuttest down1 · 3%
- was grieved1 · 3%
- was vexed1 · 3%
- unto the reapers1 · 3%
- that they do reap1 · 3%
- were reaping1 · 3%
- and to reap1 · 3%
- to the reapers1 · 3%
- be troubled1 · 3%
- hast thou shortened1 · 3%
- he shortened1 · 3%
- wherewith the mower1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.