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Leviticus 23:22

“And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

קָצַרqâtsar · kaw-tsar'
H7114 · Hebrew
Definition
to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
[idiom] at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.
Grammar
  • וּֽ — conjunction
  • בְ — preposition
  • קֻצְרְ — verb Qal, infinitive construct
  • כֶ֞ם — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, masculine, plural
Code HC/R/Vqc/Sp2mp
Usage
Occurs 51 times in the Hebrew Bible.Leviticus 19:9Leviticus 19:9Leviticus 23:10Leviticus 25:5Leviticus 25:11

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read קָצַר here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.