Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3954 - לֶקֶשׁ leqesh (the after-growth)

Original Word:	לֶקֶשׁ
Transliteration:	leqesh
Definition:	the after-growth, spring crop
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(leh'-kesh)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

latter growth

From laqash; the after crop -- latter growth.

see HEBREW laqash

Englishman's Concordance

1) after-growth, aftermath, spring-crop, late crop after-growth
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3953
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1127a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

לֶ֫קֶשׁnoun [masculine] probably after-growth, after-math, i.e. spring-crop (compare GASm^{12Proph. i. 109}); — only (2 t.) Amos 7:1, בִּתְחִלַּת עֲלוֺת הַלָּ֑קֶשׁ וְהִנֵּהלֶקֶשׁ אַחַר נִּזֵּי הַמֶּלֶךְ׃. — > Other interpretations are: late-rain growth (from מַלְקוֺשׁ q. v.), Hoffm^{ZAW iii. (1883) 116}; leaf-and-herb-gathering in spring, We after Klein^{ZPV iv. 1881, 83}; Anderlind^{viii. 1886, 62}.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3954. לָ֫קֶשׁ (leqesh) — 2 Occurrences

Amos 7:1
HEB:בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת עֲל֣וֹת הַלָּ֑קֶשׁ וְהִ֨נֵּה־ לֶ֔קֶשׁ
NAS: a locust-swarm when the spring crop
KJV: of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth
INT: began to sprout the spring and behold crop

Amos 7:1
HEB:הַלָּ֑קֶשׁ וְהִ֨נֵּה־ לֶ֔קֶשׁ אַחַ֖ר גִּזֵּ֥י
NAS: when the spring crop began
KJV: of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after
INT: the spring and behold crop after mowing

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