קַיִץ qayits

Hebrew word for “summer” · Strong’s H7019 · used 20 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

1) summer, summer-fruit; 1a) summer; 1b) summer-fruit; Aramaic equivalent: qa.yit (קַ֫יִט "summer" H7007)

How it is translated

Glosses given for qayits in context, with how often each is used:

• summer 11
• summer fruit 9

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Samuel 16 (2), Jeremiah 40 (2), Amos 8 (2), Genesis 8 (1), Psalms 32 (1), Psalms 74 (1), Proverbs 6 (1), Proverbs 10 (1), Proverbs 26 (1), Proverbs 30 (1)

Forms

• קיץ 8
• בקיץ 5
• וקיץ 3
• קיצך 2
• והקיץ 1
• הקיץ 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qayits more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• קָצִיר qatsir “harvest” 6
• חֹרֶף choreph “autumn” 4
• יַיִן yayin “wine” 4
• אָגַר agar “to gather” 2
• כְּלוּב keluv “basket” 2
• לֶחֶם lechem “food” 4
• בַּכֻּרוֹת bikkurah “early fig” 2
• שְׂבָם sevam “Sibmah” 2
• בָּצִיר batsir “vintage” 2
• עָבַר avar “to pass” 4
• יַעְזֵר yaazer “Jazer” 2
• צִיבָא tsiva “Ziba” 2

Key verses

The verses using qayits that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 8:22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• 2 Samuel 16:1 — And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two…
• 2 Samuel 16:2 — And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for…
• Psalms 32:4 — For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
• Proverbs 26:1 — As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
• Isaiah 16:9 — Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer…
• Isaiah 28:4 — And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh…
• Jeremiah 40:10 — As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in…
• Jeremiah 48:32 — O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen…
• Amos 8:2 — And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not…
• Micah 7:1 — Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the…
• Zechariah 14:8 — And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.