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Hebrew verb · H7114

קָצַר

qatsarkaw-tsar'

be short; to reap

49 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: qâtsar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7114is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 18 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 46
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7114

to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)

The King James renders it: [idiom] at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

qatsar is rendered "be short; to reap". It stands 49 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "be short".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 19:9When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-six different ways.

The first use

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Leviticus 19:9וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶם֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eighteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 21 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: be short, and to reap.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
be shortStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereLeviticus 19:9When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or…
to reapStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the harvesters6
  • and it was short3
  • you will harvest3
  • and reap2
  • and when harvest you2
  • he will reap2
  • it is short2
  • they will reap2
  • ¿ is it short1
  • ¿ really to be short1
  • a reaper1
  • and it became short1

and 23 more, 49 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

קָצַףqatsaphbe angryUses34
קָצַץqatsatsto cutUses14
קָצַבqatsabto shearUses2
קָצַעqatsato scrapeUses2

The words it stands beside

All 49, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

46 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַתִּקְצַ֥ר3
  • וְקִצְר֛וּ2
  • בַּקֹּצֵ֔ר1
  • בְּקֻצְרֶ֔ךָ1
  • הַקּֽוֹצְרִ֑ים1
  • הַקּוֹצְרִ֖ים1
  • הַקּוֹצְרִ֑ים1
  • הַקּֽוֹצְרִ֔ים1
  • הֲקָצ֨וֹר1
  • הֲקָצַר֙1
  • הַקֹּצֵ֖ר1
  • הַקֹּצְרִ֑ים1

and 34 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural6HTd/Vqrmpa
  • Hc/Vqw3fs4Hc/Vqw3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular3HVqi2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural2HC/R/Vqcc/Sp2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HC/Vqv2mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqi3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqp3fs
  • adjective · feminine plural1HAafpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vqcc
  • Hc/Vqq2mp1Hc/Vqq2mp

Leviticus

seven uses
  • When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    Leviticus 19:9

    • וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶם֙uvekutzrekhemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and when harvest you
    • לִקְצֹ֑רliktzorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to harvest
  • “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.

    Leviticus 23:10

    • וּקְצַרְתֶּ֖םuketzartemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will harvest
  • When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

    Leviticus 23:22

    • וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶ֞םuvekutzrekhemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and when harvest you
    • בְּקֻצְרֶ֔ךָbekutzrechapreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: when harvesting you
  • You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

    Leviticus 25:5

    • תִקְצ֔וֹרtiktzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will harvest
  • The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

    Leviticus 25:11

    • תִקְצְרוּ֙tiktzeruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will harvest

Numbers

two uses
  • The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”

    Numbers 11:23

    • תִּקְצָ֑רtiktzarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: is it short
  • Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

    Numbers 21:4

    • וַתִּקְצַ֥רvatiktzarHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it became short

Deuteronomy

one use
  • 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.

    Deuteronomy 24:19

    • תִקְצֹר֩tiktzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will harvest

Judges

two uses
  • So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

    Judges 10:16

    • וַתִּקְצַ֥רvatiktzarHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was short
  • Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

    Judges 16:16

    • וַתִּקְצַ֥רvatiktzarHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was short

Ruth

seven uses
  • So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

    Ruth 2:3

    • הַקֹּצְרִ֑יםhakotzerimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the harvesters
  • Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.

    Ruth 2:4

    • לַקּוֹצְרִ֖יםlakotzrimpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to the harvesters
  • And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

    Ruth 2:5

    • הַקּֽוֹצְרִ֑יםhakotzrimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the harvesters
  • The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

    Ruth 2:6

    • הַקּוֹצְרִ֖יםhakotzrimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the harvesters
  • She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

    Ruth 2:7

    • הַקּוֹצְרִ֑יםhakotzrimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the harvesters
  • 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.”

    Ruth 2:9

    • יִקְצֹרוּן֙yiktzorunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they are harvesting
  • At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

    Ruth 2:14

    • הַקּֽוֹצְרִ֔יםhakotzrimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the harvesters

1 Samuel

two uses
  • Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.

    1 Samuel 6:13

    • קֹצְרִ֥יםkotzerimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: harvesting
  • He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.

    1 Samuel 8:12

    • וְלִקְצֹ֣רveliktzorconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to harvest

2 Kings

two uses
  • And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

    2 Kings 4:18

    • הַקֹּצְרִֽים׃hakotzerimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the harvesters
  • And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

    2 Kings 19:29

    • וְקִצְר֛וּvekitzruconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and reap

Job

three uses
  • As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

    Job 4:8

    • יִקְצְרֻֽהוּ׃yiktzeruhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they harvest it
  • Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

    Job 21:4

    • תִקְצַ֥רtiktzarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: will it be short
  • They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

    Job 24:6

    • יִקְצ֑וֹרוּyaktziruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they harvest

Psalms

four uses
  • You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

    Psalms 89:45

    • הִ֭קְצַרְתָּhiktzartaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have made short
  • He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

    Psalms 102:23

    • קִצַּ֥רkitzarverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has cut short
  • Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

    Psalms 126:5

    • יִקְצֹֽרוּ׃yiktzoruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will reap
  • unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

    Psalms 129:7

    • קוֹצֵ֗רkotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a reaper

Proverbs

two uses
  • The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.

    Proverbs 10:27

    • תִּקְצֹֽרְנָה׃tiktzorenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will be short
  • He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

    Proverbs 22:8

    • יִקְצָרyiktzor-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will reap

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.

    Ecclesiastes 11:4

    • יִקְצֽוֹר׃yiktzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will reap

Isaiah

six uses
  • as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

    Isaiah 17:5

    • יִקְצ֑וֹרyiktzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone will reap
  • Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

    Isaiah 28:20

    • קָצַ֥רkatzarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is short
  • And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

    Isaiah 37:30

    • וְקִצְר֛וּvekitzruconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and reap
  • Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

    Isaiah 50:2

    • הֲקָצ֨וֹרhakatzorquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: ¿ really to be short
    • קָצְרָ֤הkatzerahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: was it short
  • Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.

    Isaiah 59:1

    • קָצְרָ֥הkatzerahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is short

Jeremiah

two uses
  • Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

    Jeremiah 9:22

    • הַקֹּצֵ֖רhakotzerthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the reaper
  • They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

    Jeremiah 12:13

    • קָצָ֔רוּkatzaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have reaped

Ezekiel

one use
  • Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

    Ezekiel 42:5

    • קְצֻר֑וֹתketzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: short

Hosea

three uses
  • For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

    Hosea 8:7

    • יִקְצֹ֑רוּyiktzoruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will reap
  • Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

    Hosea 10:12

    • קִצְר֣וּkitzruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: reap
  • You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

    Hosea 10:13

    • קְצַרְתֶּ֖םketzartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have reaped

Amos

one use
  • “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.

    Amos 9:13

    • בַּקֹּצֵ֔רbakotzerpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: in the reaper

Micah

two uses
  • Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?

    Micah 2:7

    • הֲקָצַר֙hakatzarquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ is it short
  • You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

    Micah 6:15

    • תִקְצ֑וֹרtiktzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will reap

Zechariah

one use
  • And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

    Zechariah 11:8

    • וַתִּקְצַ֤רvatiktzarHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was short

The letters

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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