Bible word study

Qatsar (Strong’s H7114): Meaning in the Bible

Qatsar (קָצַר) is the Hebrew word numbered H7114 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain). In the King James Bible it is translated cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe.

• Original wordקָצַר
• Transliterationqâtsar
• Pronunciationkaw-tsar'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH7114
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Qatsar appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Qatsar (H7114) stands behind 48 English renderings in 46 verses across 18 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ruth (7), Leviticus (6), Isaiah (6).

How the King James Bible renders Qatsar, by count

• reap18 of 48 (38 percent)
• reapers7 of 48 (15 percent)
• shortened5 of 48 (10 percent)
• shorter2 of 48 (4 percent)
• all1 of 48 (2 percent)
• discouraged1 of 48 (2 percent)

Three places to read Qatsar

• Leviticus 19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
• Ruth 2:9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
• Ecclesiastes 11:4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Qatsar in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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