לֶקֶשׁ
leqesh · H3954 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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late sowing
The crops on the field that are the result of the second sowing within a particular year
ExamplesAmos 7:1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a swarm of locusts when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָלָהto go up 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֵּזshearing 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- סָפִיחַ çâphîyach · H5599 · torrent, self-sown grain, aftergrowth
- Spontaneous volunteer growth that springs up without planting, semantically parallel to לֶקֶשׁ (latter growth, potentially including second plantings or regrowth) as secondary agricultural growth following the primary harvest, though לֶקֶשׁ may allow for intentional cultivation while סָפִיחַ emphasizes self-sown or volunteer growth
Contrasting words 1 word
- בִּכּוּר bikkûwr · H1061 · first fruits
- First/early produce of the season, lexically opposite to latter growth (לֶקֶשׁ) which represents late-season agricultural yield
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὄψιμος ópsimos · G3797 · late rain, spring rain
- Greek adjective describing late/latter growth or rain, used in James 5:7 for latter rain (ὀψιμον) corresponding to Hebrew לֶקֶשׁ's agricultural context of latter growth following earlier crops
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3954. leqesh לֶ֫קֶשׁ noun [masculine] probably after-growth, after-math, i.e.…
לֶ֫קֶשׁ noun [masculine] probably after-growth, after-math, i.e. spring-crop (compare GASm12Proph. i. 109); — only (2 t.) Amo 7:1, הַמֶּלֶךְ׃ נִּזֵּי אַחַר לֶקֶשׁ וְהִנֵּה הַלָּ֑קֶשׁ עֲלוֺת בִּתְחִלַּת. — > Other interpretations are: late-rain growth (from מַלְקוֺשׁ q. v.), HoffmZAW iii. (1883) 116; leaf-and-herb-gathering in spring, We after KleinZPV iv. 1881, 83; Anderlindviii. 1886, 62.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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