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title: קַיִץ — summer · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַיִץ (7019), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 20 times: summer. BDB 1906: n.m. summer, summer-fruit. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַיִץ

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«קַיִץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **summer** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 20 times · **Key:** 7019 · **BDB:** קַ֫יִץ

### Glosses

summer (9); fruit (3); of.summer.fruit (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

summer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7019/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. summer, summer-fruit [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7019/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 8:20 summer, summer-fruit (cf. Gk. θέρος in both meanings);—abs. ק׳ Gn 8:22 +; קָ֑יִץ Am 3:15 +; sf. קֵיצֵךְ Is 16:9 Je 48:32;— summer-season, opp. חֹרֶף Gn 8:22 (J), Am 3:15; Zc 14:8 ψ 74:17; ‖ קָצִיר Je 8:20; Pr 6:8; 10:5; 26:1, also (without קָצִיר) 30:25; as fruit harvest Is 28:4; time of drought ψ 32:4 (fig.). summer-fruit 2 S 16:1, 2; Am 8:1, 2; Je 40:10, 12 also, ‖ בָּצִיר, 48:32; Mi 7:1 (in sim.), but ‖ קציר Is 16:9 (assim. to ק of קַיִץ; read prob. בציר).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַיִץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7019/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 8:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.20/)

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עָבַ֥ר קָצִ֖יר כָּ֣לָה קָ֑יִץ וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ ל֥וֹא נוֹשָֽׁעְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.has.passed harvest it.has.come.to.an.end summer and we not we.have.been.saved

*JPS 1917:* 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'

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[Amos 8:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.1/)

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כֹּ֥ה הִרְאַ֖נִי אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֖ה כְּל֥וּב קָֽיִץ׃

*Word for word:* thus he showed.me Lord \[the\] Yahweh and there! a.basket of.summer.fruit

*JPS 1917:* Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit.

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