Summer Season Fruit

[קִיץ] Pf. 3 ms. קָץ spent the summer Is 18:6.

† חֹ֫רֶף n.m. harvest-time, autumn (Arabic خَرِيفٌ freshly gathered fruit, autumn (also rain of autumn or beginning of winter) = Sab. חֿרפ(ן) DHMZMG 1875, xxix. 597; Sab. חֿרף, חֿרפם = year, cf. Ethiopic ኀሪፍ annus currens Os(Levy)ZMG 1865, 168, 174 DHMZMG 1883, 369; Assyrian ḫarpu, SchrJPTh 1875, 341 KAT2 53 n. = COT i. 54 n.)—abs. ח׳ Zc 14:8 + 5 times; sf. חָרְפִּי Jb 29:4;—קַיִץ וָחֹרֶף Gn 8:22 (J), ψ 74:17 Zc 14:8; בֵּית הַח׳ autumn-house or palace Am 3:15 Je 36:22 (+ בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַתְּשִׁיעִי in the 9th month, i.e. Nov.–Dec.); מח׳ עָצֵל לֹא יַחֲרֹשׁ Pr 20:4 a sluggard ploughs not after harvest; as implying maturity, בִּימֵי חָרְפִּי Jb 29:4 in the days of my autumn (prime).

θέρος, εος, τό, (θέρω) summer, χείματος οὐδὲ θέρευς Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν θέρει, opposed to ἐνψύχει, Refs 5th c.BC+; θέρεϊ or θέρει, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὸ θέρος during the summer, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦ θέρεος in the course of it, Refs 5th c.BC+; θέρεος or θέρους (without the Article), Refs 8th c.BC+; θ. μεσοῦντος about midsummer, Refs 5th c.BC+, campaigning-season, ἅμα ἦρι τοῦ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους Refs __II summerfruits, harvest, crop, θ. ἀλλότριον ἀμᾶν Refs 5th c.BC+crops, Refs 3rd c.AD+; θέρη σταχύων the ripe ears, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a horse's mane, see at {θερίζω} Refs; of a youth's beard, Refs 3rd c.BC+ __III Astron., τὸ μέγα θ., ὅταν πάντες οἱ πλάνητες ἐν θερινῷ ζῳδίῳ γένωνται Refs 6th c.AD+ __IV metaphorically, in an epitaph for a year of life, Refs

φθῐν-οπωρῐνός, ή, όν, autumnal, Refs 5th c.BC+

II. קיץ (√ of foll.; cf. Arabic قَيْظٌ vehement heat of summer, late summer (WeSkizzen iii, 90), قَاظَ be vehemently hot; Sab. קיטֿ summer MordtmHim. Inschr. 71; NH קַיִץ = BH, so 𝔗 קַיְטָא Syriac ܩܰܝܛܳܐ; Old Aramaic (Zinj.) כיצא summer).

† קַ֫יִט n. [m.] summer (𝔗 Syriac; v. BH II. קיץ);—abs. ק׳ Dn 2:35.