harvest

Everyday

1. To harvest is to gather crops like corn, apples or wheat when they are ripe. tree →
2. The harvest is the time when crops are gathered, at the end of summer or in autumn. tree →
3. A harvest is the amount of crops gathered: «a good harvest». tree →

In the lessons

a gain: the amount of crop gathered, often per day or per acre; with «each day» or «per acre» it is a rate (multiply); in many schools there is a harvest festival; phrases: «harvest time», «harvest festival», «a good harvest», «harvest moon»

Examples

• They harvest 28 sacks of oranges each day. tree →
• How many sacks will they have after 5 days? tree →
• The farmer harvested 400 potatoes. tree →
• Each acre gives a harvest of 30 bushels. tree →
• Farmers harvest wheat at the end of summer. tree →
• Rain ruined the harvest this year. tree →
• We brought food to the harvest festival. tree →
• Bees harvest nectar from flowers. tree →
• Good harvests, or bad, the farmer was always poor, the money-lender rich. tree →

Note

An action that adds; with «each day» or «per acre» it is a rate (multiply). Trap: «sacks of ripe and unripe oranges» may need only one kind.

In Jewish tradition

In the Torah, harvest is the time of gathering crops. It is a holy time, and the first fruits are brought to God. In the Prophets and Writings it is also a picture: wheat harvest is the dry season, the ant gathers food in harvest, and Hosea says a harvest of judgment is appointed for Judah.

Interpretation. The harvest seasons give the festivals Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. Shavuot is "the feast of harvest," and the rabbis say the cycle of seedtime and harvest is God's promise to Noah. Proverbs is read as praising the ant for working in season, and Hosea as warning that people will reap what they have sown.

Examples

• Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. (Torah EXO.22.29, JPS 1917) tree →
• While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.' (Torah GEN.8.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. (Torah GEN.30.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• Is it not wheat harvest to-day? (Prophets 1SA.12.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee! (Prophets HOS.6.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• Provideth her bread in the summer, and gatherest her food in the harvest. (Writings PRO.6.8, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

An action that adds; with «each day» or «per acre» it is a rate (multiply). Trap: «sacks of ripe and unripe oranges» may need only one kind.