UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: θεριστής; -οῦ

Related lemmas: θερμαίνομαι

Sense 1: reaper, harvester

Semantic entry: 43.16

Semantic domains: Agriculture

Definition: (derivative of θερίζω ‘to harvest,’ 43.14: θερίζω / 43.14: θερισμός) a person who gathers in a crop

Notes: In a number of languages there is no specific term for ‘reapers,’ and therefore it may be necessary in OET MAT 13:30 to say ‘… I will say to those who are working in the fields’ or ‘… who are cutting down the grain.’

Show passage in OET: MAT 13:30

OET-RV MAT 13:30

30 Let them all grow together, and then at harvest time I can just tell the harvesters to pull the false wheat plants out first and put them in bundles to be incinerated, and then harvest the wheat to go into my barn.’ ”

OET-LV MAT 13:30

30 Allow both to _be _being _grown _together until the harvest, and in the_time of _the harvest I _will _be _saying to _the harvesters:
Gather first the darnels and bind them into bundles in _order that to _burn _up them, and gather _together the wheat into the barn of _me.

Show passage in OET: MAT 13:39

OET-RV MAT 13:39

39 and the enemy who planted them is the devil. The harvest is at the end of this age, and the harvesters are God’s messengers.

OET-LV MAT 13:39

39 and the enemy is, the one having _sown them, is the devil, and the harvest is the_completion of_the_age, and the harvesters are messengers.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

θεριστής

Form 1

Sense 1: reaper, harvester