vintage
ba.tsir denotes the grape harvest, viewed as a season, yield, or completed gathering.
The term consistently denotes the grape harvest or its gathered yield: it can be finished, delayed, struck by a destroyer, compared with gleaning, or placed in the sequence of agricultural abundance.
Senses in use
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Grape harvest or gathered vintage · dominant
The absolute forms occur in harvest scenes: Isaiah 24:13 compares what remains among the peoples to gleanings after the harvest is finished, Isaiah 32:10 places its completion beside the absence of gathering, and Leviticus 26:5 places it between threshing and seed. The construct forms in Jeremiah 48:32 and Judges 8:2 link it respectively with a vine's summer fruit and with Abiezer in a comparison; Micah 7:1 portrays the lack of a cluster after gleaning the harvest.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the term with "vintage," including a harvest that is finished, overtaken by threshing, or struck by a destroyer; it also uses "glean the vintage" in Micah 7:1. These renderings reflect the clauses' overall presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent for each token.