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title: לֶקֶשׁ — after-growth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לֶקֶשׁ (3954), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: after-growth. BDB 1906: after-growth, after-math spring-crop. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לֶקֶשׁ

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«לֶקֶשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **after-growth** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3954 · **BDB:** לֶ֫קֶשׁ

### Glosses

a.spring-crop (1); the.spring-crop (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

after-growth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3954/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

after-growth, after-math spring-crop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3954/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prob. after-growth, after-math, i.e. spring-crop (cf. GASm 12 Proph. i. 109);—only (2 times) Am 7:1, בִּתְחִלַּת עֲלוֹת הַלָּ֑קֶשׁ וְהִנֵּה לֶקֶשׁ אַחַר גִּזֵּי הַמֶּלֶךְ׃.—\> Other interpr. are: late-rain growth (from מַלְקוֹשׁ q.v.), HoffmZAW iii. (1883) 116; leaf-and-herb-gathering in spring, We after KleinZPV iv. 1881, 83; Anderlindviii. 1886, 62.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לֶקֶשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3954/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.1/)

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כֹּ֤ה הִרְאַ֙נִי֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וְהִנֵּה֙ יוֹצֵ֣ר גֹּבַ֔י בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת עֲל֣וֹת הַלָּ֑קֶשׁ וְהִ֨נֵּה־לֶ֔קֶשׁ אַחַ֖ר גִּזֵּ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* thus he showed.me Lord \[the\] Yahweh and there! \[he.was\].forming locust\[s\] at the.beginning of.the.coming.up of the.spring-crop and there! a.spring-crop after the.mowings of the.king

*JPS 1917:* Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, He formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

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