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תְּבוּאָה

produce

also: product, revenue fuller range ↓

H8393 Strong's Hebrew
tᵉbûwʼâh Transliteration
/teb-oo-aw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 43 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

The Hebrew noun תבואה centers on the idea of “produce.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “increase” in the King James Version, “harvest” (Berean Standard Bible) and “produce” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 40 verses across 16 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Leviticus (25%), then Proverbs and Deuteronomy. Beyond “produce” it also covers “product” and “revenue” — see its full sense range. Dig into 40-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
fruit
Modern gloss
produce
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H8393 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

40
distinct verses
The word appears in 40 distinct verses.
16 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 16 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 47:24
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 47:24.
Ezekiel 48:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Ezekiel 48:18.
#837
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 837 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 40 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 19 · 48%
  • Historical 5 · 13%
  • Wisdom 11 · 28%
  • Prophets 5 · 13%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 40 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 19 verses · 48%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 14 verses · 35%
  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 18%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Increase 14×, Fruit 7×, Fruits 3×
  • American Standard Version: Increase 16×, All the increase 2×, Fruits 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Harvest 13×, Produce 10×, Crops 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Produce 16×, Produce of 7×, Harvest 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H8393 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Increase” 14×
  • “Fruit” 7×
  • “Fruits” 3×
  • “Revenues” 3×
  • “All the increase” 2×

Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H8393 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Increase” 16×
  • “All the increase” 2×
  • “Fruits” 2×
  • “Revenues” 2×

Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H8393 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Harvest” 13×
  • “Produce” 10×
  • “Crops” 3×
  • “Gain” 3×
  • “Income” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H8393 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Produce” 16×
  • “Produce of” 7×
  • “Harvest” 5×
  • “Crops” 2×
  • “Harvest of” 2×
  • “Harvests” 2×
  • “Like produce of” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in the full BDB

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol Meaning
𝔊 the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙 the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖 the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗 the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ the Psalms
√ root (the underlying root or stem)
‖ parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
† the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

  • 1. product, yield, usually of earth (= crops, etc.) תּ׳ הָאָרֶץ Ex 23:10 Lv 19:25; 23:39; 25:3, 7 (used as food for man & beast, cf. v 22) Jos 5:12, cf. Ne 9:37 Lv 25:15, 16, also Ez 48:18; in Gn 47:24 בַּתּ׳ must = of the crops (בּ partitive, cf. בְּ I. 2. b.; 𝔊 del. בְּ); תּ׳ שָׂדֶה 2 K 8:6 2 Ch 31:5; תּ׳ כֶּרֶם Dt 22:9 cf. ψ 107:37; לֶחֶם תּ׳ הָאֲדָמָה Is 30:23; תּ׳ גֹּרֶן & תּ׳ יָ֑קֶב Nu 18:30; תּ׳ זֶרַע Dt 14:22; תּ׳ דָּגָן 2 Ch 32:28; as property of husbandmen, or people Lv 25:20 Dt 14:28; 16:15; 26:12 Pr 3:9; crops as determined by season, תּ׳ שָׁ֑מֶשׁ Dt 33:14 (‖ גֶּרֶשׁ יְרָחִים); yield of a year שָׁנָה Lv 25:12, 22; cf. v 21 עָשָׂה תּ׳, subj. שָׁנָה. e.g. Exodus 23:10
  • 2.
    • a. income, revenue, in general Jb 31:12 (almost = possessions) Pr 10:16; 14:4; 15:6; 16:8 Ec 5:9 cf. Is 23:3 (revenue of Tyre from trade with Egypt in bread stuffs). e.g. Job 31:12
    • b. fig. gain of wisdom תּ׳ תָכְמָה Pr 13:14; 8:19; product of lips (תּ׳ שְׂפָתָיו) Pr 18:20, i.e. results of his speech (‖ פְּרִי פִי־אִישׁ); of Isr. as Yahweh’s product Je 2:3; of Israel’s wickedness Je 12:13. e.g. Proverbs 13:14

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.


Word origin

n.f. proventus, product, revenue—תּ׳ abs. ψ 107:37 + 3 times; cstr. תְּבוּאַת Lv 23:39 + 11 times; sf. תְּבוּאָתִי Jb 31:12 Pr 8:19; תְּבוּאָתְךָ Dt 14:28 + 2 times; תְּבוּאָתֶ֑ךָ Pr 3:9; תְּבוּאָתוֹ Lv 19:25 + Ez 48:18 Qr (Kt תבואתה), תְּבוּאָתֹה Je 2:3; תְּבוּאָתָהּ Ex 23:10 + 7 times + Ez 48:18 Kt (so Co); תְּבוּאָתֵנוּ Lv 25:20; pl. תְּבוּאֹת Lv 25:15 + 4 times; תְּבוּאוֹת Pr 14:4; 16:8; תְּבוּאֹתֵיכֶם Je 12:13;—

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from בוא (bôwʼ) (H935) — to enter.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 212c


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

תְּבוּאָה

  • [that which is brought in,] grain, provision. Ned. 55ᵃ, v. עֲלַל II. Ib. תבואה לחוד ותְבוּאַת וכ׳ t’buah is one thing (refers only to the five kinds of grain), and t’buath sadeh is another thing (refers to all in-gatherings of the field). Peah VI, 9 סאה ת׳ עקורה וכ׳ a S’ah of plucked grain (forgotten in the field), and one of unplucked (standing) grain. Ib. 10 ת׳ שנתנה לשחת grain cut for fodder (v. שַׁחַת II). B. Mets. 59ᵃ לעולם … בת׳ וכ׳ a man should always take care to have grain in his house, שאין מריבה … על עסקי ת׳ for no strife is more frequent in the house than that about grain. Men. 103ᵇ הלוקח ת׳ משנה וכ׳ he who buys grain from year to year; (Y. Sabb. VIII, 11ᵃ bot. חטים). Tem. 16ᵃ אשה כיון שאין לה ת׳ וכ׳ when a woman has no provision in the house, she clamors at once; a. fr.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 34 distinct written forms H8393 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
תְּבוּאַ֣ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 14:22 4
תְּבוּאָתָֽ/הּ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Exodus 23:10 4
תְּ֝בוּא֗וֹת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Proverbs 14:4 2
תְּבוּאַ֖ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Proverbs 10:16 2
תְּבוּאֹ֣ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct Deuteronomy 33:14 2
בַּ/תְּבוּאֹ֔ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Genesis 47:24 1
הַ/תְּבוּאָ֔ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 25:21 1
הַ/תְּבוּאָ֣ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 25:22 1
וְ/כִ/תְבוּאַ֥ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Numbers 18:30 1
וּ/בִ/תְבוּאַ֖ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Proverbs 15:6 1
וּ/תְבוּאַ֖ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 22:9 1
וּ/תְבוּאָתָ֣/הּ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Nehemiah 9:37 1
וּ֝/תְבוּאָתִ֗/י Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Proverbs 8:19 1
כִּ/תְבוּאַ֥ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Numbers 18:30 1
לִ/תְבוּאַ֥ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 2 Chronicles 32:28 1
מִ/תְּבוּאַת֙ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Joshua 5:12 1
מִ/תְּבוּאֹ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct Jeremiah 12:13 1
תְבֽוּאָה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Psalms 107:37 1
תְבֽוּאָת/וֹ֙ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezekiel 48:18 1
תְבוּאָ֑ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ecclesiastes 5:10 1
תְבוּאֹ֖ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Leviticus 25:15 1
תְּב֖וּאָתִ֣/י Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Job 31:12 1
תְּב֣וּאָתָ֔/הּ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Leviticus 25:22 1
תְּבֽוּאָתָ֑/הּ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Isaiah 23:3 1
תְּבוּאָ֣תְ/ךָ֔ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 14:28 1
תְּבוּאָֽתְ/ךָ֙ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 16:15 1
תְּבוּאָת֑/וֹ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Leviticus 19:25 1
תְּבוּאָתְ/ךָ֛ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 26:12 1
תְּבוּאָתֵֽ/נוּ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Leviticus 25:20 1
תְּבוּאָתֶֽ/ךָ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Proverbs 3:9 1
תְּבוּאָתָ֖/הּ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Leviticus 25:7 1
תְּבוּאָתֹ֑/ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Jeremiah 2:3 1
תְּבוּאֹ֔ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Leviticus 25:16 1
תבואת/ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezekiel 48:18 1

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 38 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 40 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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