Summer
קַ֫יִטStrong’s H7019qayit (qa-yit)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qayit is the Hebrew word usually translated “summer”, “summer fruit” and “summer fruit your”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 summer and in winter shall it be.”
Meaning
- Summer
How it's translated
- in the summer 5
- summer fruit 4
- summer 4
- summer fruit your 2
- and summer fruit 2
- and summer 1
- and the summer fruit 1
- the summer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Amos 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- 2 Samuel 16:1And 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 hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
- 2 Samuel 16:2And 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 the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
- Psalms 32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- Psalms 74:17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- Proverbs 6:8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Hebrew dictionary
קַ֫יִט qayit · summer
summer Aramaic of qa.yits (קַ֫יִץ "summer" H7019)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “summer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUM'MER, noun
One who casts up an account.
All definitions and other forms of “summer”
SUM'MER, noun
With us, the season of the year comprehended in the months June, July and August; during which time, the sun being north of the equator, shines more directly upon this part of the earth, which, together with the increased length of the days, renders this the hottest period of the year. In latitudes south of the equator, just the opposite takes place, or it is summer there when it is winter here.
SUM'MER, verb intransitive
To pass the summer or warm season.
- “The fowls shall summer upon them” Isaiah 18:6
SUM'MER, verb transitive
To keep warm. [Little used.]
SUM'MER, noun
- A large stone, the first that is laid over columns and pilasters, beginning to make a cross vault; or a stone laid over a column, and hollowed to receive the first haunce of a platband.
- A large timber supported on two stone piers or posts, serving as a lintel to a door or window, etc.
- A large timber or beam laid as a central floor timber, inserted into the girders, and receiving the ends of the joists and supporting them.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.