to reap
qa.tsar denotes harvesting a crop and, in agricultural imagery, receiving the outcome of what has been sown.
The dominant use describes harvesting grain or other field produce, including workers engaged in the harvest and instructions about when or how a field may be harvested. Several passages apply the sowing-and-harvesting pattern to the outcome of conduct, whether injustice, trouble, righteousness, or tears.
Senses in use
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Harvesting crops in a field · dominant
The term occurs for the actual gathering of a harvest: in Deuteronomy 24:19 the second-person imperfect stands in the instruction about harvesting a field and leaving a forgotten sheaf, while in Leviticus 23:22 infinitive forms occur in the command not to finish the field's edge. Qal active participles designate harvest workers in Ruth 2:3 and Ruth 2:14, where the APB renders them as “reapers”; 1 Samuel 6:13 places such workers at the wheat harvest.
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Harvesting as the outcome of what is sown · common
Agricultural harvesting supplies the outcome-image in clauses about conduct: in Hosea 10:13, a Qal perfect follows plowing wickedness and is followed by eating the fruit of a lie; in Job 4:8, a Qal imperfect follows plowing wickedness and sowing trouble. Hosea 10:12 pairs an imperative with sowing righteousness, and Psalm 126:5 joins sowing in tears with harvesting “with a cry of joy.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the field action with “reap” and the participles with “reaper” or “reapers.” In the outcome imagery it retains harvest language, such as “reaped injustice” and “reap with a cry of joy,”.