STRONGS NUMBER H6972


Word Summary
quts: summer
Original Word: קוּץ
Transliteration: quts
Phonetic Spelling: (koots)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: summer
Meaning: to spend the harvest season
Strong's Concordance
summer

A primitive root; to clip off; used only as denominative from qayits; to spend the harvest season -- summer.

see HEBREW qayits

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6972. quts

קַ֫יִץnoun masculineJeremiah 8:20 summer, summer-fruit (compare Greek Θέρος in both meanings); — absolute ׳קGenesis 8:22 +; קָ֑יִץAmos 3:15 +; suffix קֵיצֵךְIsaiah 16:9; Jeremiah 48:32; —

1 summer-season, opposed to חֹרֶףGenesis 8:22 (J), Amos 3:15; Zechariah 14:8; Psalm 74:17; "" קָצִירJeremiah 8:20; Proverbs 6:8; 10:5; 26:1, also (without קָצִיר‎) 30:25; as fruit harvest Isaiah 28:4; time of drought Psalm 32:4 (figurative).

2 summer-fruit 2 Samuel 16:1-2, Amos 8:1-2, Jeremiah 40:10, 12 also, "" בָּצִיר‎, 48:32; Micah 7:1 (in simile), but "" קצירIsaiah 16:9 (assimilated to ק‎ of קַיִץ‎; read probably בציר‎).

קִיצוֺן‎ see קצץ