noun · masculine
therismos
Strong’sG2326
reaping, harvest
stem therism-13 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
θερισμός refers to harvest, and covers three related senses.
It can mean the act of reaping or gathering in crops 13.
It can also mean the time of harvest, the season when crops are gathered, often used figuratively 13.
Most often it refers to the harvested crop itself, the produce that is reaped 123, a sense also used figuratively 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G2326 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidther-is-mos'
reaping, i.e. the crop
Fromfrom G2325;
King Jamesharvest.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
mowing, reaping, Refs 5th c.BC+
II reaping-time, harvest, NT+5th c.BC+
II.2 harvest, crop, LXX+NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | therismos6×θερισμὸς | therismois |
| object accusative | therismon3×θερισμὸν | therismoin |
| direct address vocative | therismor | therismoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | therismou4×θερισμοῦ | therismoiu |
| to, for dative | therismo | therismoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
therismo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
13 occurrences, every one of them listed
therismos“harvest”subjectnominative singular6×
Matthew 9:37… legatō toi mathētoi autou; Tos men therismos pollos, tois de ergatois oligois;… He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are …
Matthew 13:39… auteim atō tos diabolos; tos de therismos sunteleias aiōnou atō, tois de theristois …… sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age …
Mark 4:29… apostelatō tem drepanem, hoti parastēatē tos therismos.… he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
Luke 10:2legate de pros autoin; Tos men therismos pollos, tois de ergatois oligois; divar …And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are …
John 4:35… hoti Ēti tetramēnos atō kai tos therismos erchotō? idou legamō vi, eparavar toin …… are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your …
Revelation 14:15… tas hōras therizara, hoti xēranita tos therismos tau gēau.… because the time has come to harvest, for the crop of the earth …
therismon“harvest”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 9:38… therismou hopōs ekbalateia ergatoin eis ton therismon autou.… to send out workers into His harvest.”
Luke 10:2… therismou hopōs ergatoin ekbalateia eis ton therismon autou.… to send out workers into His harvest.
John 4:35… tain chōrain hoti leukais alō pros therismon; ēdē… fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
therismou“harvest”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Matthew 9:38divar oun tou kuriou tou therismou hopōs ekbalateia ergatoin eis ton therismon …Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into …
Matthew 13:30afiēkavar sunauxanorō amfotereim mechris tou therismou; kai en kairo tou therismou legami …Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell …
Matthew 13:30“harvest”… tou therismou; kai en kairo tou therismou legami toi theristoi; Sullegavar prōtem teim …… together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into …
Luke 10:2… oligois; divar oun tou kuriou tou therismou hopōs ergatoin ekbalateia eis ton therismon …… few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into …