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# חֹרֶף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2779

**harvest-time** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

harvest-time [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2779/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹ֫רֶף: n.m. harvest-time, autumn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2779/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. harvest-time, autumn (Arabic خَرِيفٌ freshly gathered fruit, autumn (also rain of autumn or beginning of winter) = Sab. חֿרפ(ן) DHMZMG 1875, xxix. 597; Sab. חֿרף, חֿרפם = year, cf. Ethiopic ኀሪፍ annus currens Os(Levy)ZMG 1865, 168, 174 DHMZMG 1883, 369; Assyrian ḫarpu, SchrJPTh 1875, 341 KAT2 53 n. = COT i. 54 n.)—abs. ח׳ Zc 14:8 + 5 times; sf. חָרְפִּי Jb 29:4;—קַיִץ וָחֹרֶף Gn 8:22 (J), ψ 74:17 Zc 14:8; בֵּית הַח׳ autumn-house or palace Am 3:15 Je 36:22 (+ בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַתְּשִׁיעִי in the 9th month, i.e. Nov.–Dec.); מח׳ עָצֵל לֹא יַחֲרֹשׁ Pr 20:4 a sluggard ploughs not after harvest; as implying maturity, בִּימֵי חָרְפִּי Jb 29:4 in the days of my autumn (prime).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: winter (4); the winter (2); my prime (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 74:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.17/#tree)

אַתָּ֣ה הִ֭צַּבְתָּ כָּל־גְּבוּל֣וֹת אָ֑רֶץ קַ֥יִץ וָ֝חֹ֗רֶף אַתָּ֥ה יְצַרְתָּם׃

*Word for word:* you you.established all \[the\].borders of.\[the\].earth summer and winter you you formed.them

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and winter.

[Proverbs 20:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.4/#tree)

מֵ֭חֹרֶף עָצֵ֣ל לֹא־יַחֲרֹ֑שׁ וְשָׁאַ֖ל בַּקָּצִ֣יר וָאָֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* from winter a.sluggard not he.plows and he.asks at the harvest and there.\[is\].not

*JPS 1917:* The sluggard will not plow when winter setteth in; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2779.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2779/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).