harvest
qa.tsir denotes the crop gathered from fields and the season or occasion in which it is reaped.
The term most often denotes the field crop as something reaped, gathered, left for gleaners, consumed, or lost. It also marks the harvest season or its timing, and several passages employ agricultural harvest language for an appointed outcome or coming devastation.
Senses in use
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Crop or yield gathered from the field · dominant
Construct singular forms identify a crop in relation to land, field, or owner: in Leviticus 19:9 the APB renders reaping the land's produce and leaving gleanings, while Leviticus 23:10 places the first sheaf within the crop reaped from the land. In Job 5:5 the hungry consume it, and in Jeremiah 5:17 it is among what an invading force will eat.
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Harvest season or time of reaping · common
Absolute singular forms can locate events in the period of reaping: in 2 Samuel 21:9 the APB renders deaths occurring during that period, at the beginning of the barley crop's reaping, and in Joshua 3:15 it describes the Jordan as full throughout those days. Exodus 34:21 pairs plowing with this time, when rest is still required.
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Agricultural image for an appointed outcome · occasional
Some clauses use the agricultural setting to describe a result beyond ordinary field work. In Jeremiah 51:33 the APB renders Babylon as a threshing floor and says that its time will come; Hosea 6:11 speaks of an appointed outcome for Judah, and Isaiah 17:11 describes a heap in a day of weakness and pain.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “harvest,” including harvest belonging to wheat, barley, a field, or a land, and sometimes makes the time setting explicit with phrases such as “at harvest time.” These renderings confirm the clauses' agricultural setting rather than assigning a fixed English equivalent in every occurrence.