קַיִץqayits
קַ֫יִץ: summer, summer-fruit
Pronunciation: kah'-yits · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7019
Meanings
2. summer-fruit (2 Samuel 16:1; 2 Samuel 16:2; Amos 8:1)
ᵑ7: summer (Daniel 2:35)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 20 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
- 2 Samuel 16:1 When David had gone a little beyond the summit of the Mount of Olives, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, was waiting there for him. He had two donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a wineskin full of wine.
- 2 Samuel 16:2 “What are these for?” the king asked Ziba. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s people to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat. The wine is for those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
- Psalms 32:4 Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude
- Psalms 74:17 You set the boundaries of the earth, and you made both summer and winter.
- Proverbs 6:8 they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).