What does "Harvest" mean in the Bible?

What does the Bible say about Harvest?

HAR'VEST occurred in the months of March and April, and the term is frequently employed to designate this season of the year. Josh 3:15; Prov 6:8. The harvests of the different grains happened in regular succession, and are known as the "wheat-harvest," 1 Sam 12:17, and the "barley-harvest," Ruth 1:22. The grain was reaped with sickles, Jer 50:16, gathered in handfuls, Ruth 2:16, and done up into sheaves. Ps 129:7. It was then conveyed to the barns or threshing-floors, sometimes in carts. Am 2:13, where it was threshed or winnowed. One mode of threshing was by the treading of oxen, which it was forbidden to muzzle, Deut 25:4. Harvest was a season of great joy and merriment, Isa 9:3. In the book of Ruth we pass through it as in a panoramic vision. In the N.T. our Lord refers to the end of the world under the term of harvest. Matt 13:39, whose reapers will be the angels. The angel is represented figuratively as at that time thrusting in his sickle, "for the harvest of the earth is ripe," Rev 14:15. Feast of. See Pentecost.

What is the Hebrew word for Harvest?

Where does Harvest appear in the Bible?

Harvest is referenced in 32 verses across 14 books. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.

• 1 Samuel 8:12
• 1 Samuel 12:17
• 2 Samuel 21:9
• Amos 4:7
• Exodus 23:16
• Exodus 34:22
• Genesis 8:22
• Hosea 6:11
• Isaiah 9:3
• Isaiah 17:11
• Isaiah 18:4
• Isaiah 18:5
• Isaiah 23:3
• Jeremiah 5:17
• Jeremiah 5:24
• Jeremiah 8:20
• Jeremiah 50:16
• Jeremiah 51:33
• Job 5:5
• Joel 1:11
• Joel 3:13
• Joshua 3:15
• Leviticus 19:9
• Leviticus 23:10

What else appears in these passages?

These turn up in the same passages as Harvest.