te.vu.ah denotes the yield gathered from land, and in several sayings, the return or outcome associated with a person or source.

The term most often identifies the yield of land—what is gathered, eaten, stored, tithed, or assessed from fields and vineyards. In a smaller group of sayings, it is used for a person’s or wisdom’s return, where the surrounding comparison moves beyond a literal harvest.

1. Yield from cultivated land · dominant

   The construct forms identify what belongs to a field, vineyard, land, or agricultural source: in Exodus 23:10 the APB renders the clause about sowing land and gathering “its produce,” and in Leviticus 23:39 it renders the gathering of “the produce of the land.” The same kind of yield is tithed in Deuteronomy 14:22, stored with grain, wine, and oil in 2 Chronicles 32:28, and supplied as food for city workers in Ezekiel 48:18.

   Exodus 23:10Leviticus 23:39Deuteronomy 14:222 Chronicles 32:28Ezekiel 48:18Leviticus 25:21
2. Figurative return or outcome · occasional

   In wisdom-style comparisons, the noun is attached to non-agricultural sources or evaluated as a result. In Proverbs 8:19 the APB renders a speaker’s “produce” as better than choice silver, while Proverbs 18:20 places it in the clause about “the produce of his lips”; Proverbs 16:8 contrasts a little with righteousness against abundant produce without justice.

   Proverbs 8:19Proverbs 18:20Proverbs 16:8Proverbs 3:14Proverbs 10:16Proverbs 15:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the agricultural clauses, the APB commonly uses “produce,” including “produce of the land,” and also uses “yield” in some contexts. In the wisdom sayings it retains “produce” even where the source is lips, wisdom, or the wicked; These renderings only indicate the clauses’ overall presentation.