תְּבוּאָה
te.vu.ah (H8393)
produce
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# תְּבוּאָה (Produce): A Word for Agricultural Yield The Hebrew word תְּבוּאָה (tebua'ah) refers to "produce"—the tangible output or yield obtained from agricultural labor and land. With 42 occurrences across the biblical text, this term carries consistent semantic weight in contexts where material benefit from farming or harvest is relevant. The word itself functions as a noun denoting the concrete results of cultivation rather than the act of farming itself. The frequency of this word's appearance across the biblical corpus suggests its importance to the ancient Hebrew worldview. Since it appears 42 times, it likely functions in various narrative and legal contexts where agricultural productivity matters—whether describing abundance, shortage, covenant blessings, taxation, or provisions. The term would have been immediately meaningful to an agrarian society where land yield directly determined economic viability and survival. This prevalence indicates that produce, as a concept, was central to biblical discussions of prosperity, divine blessing, and social organization. Without additional contextual data from specific passages, the core meaning remains straightforward: תְּבוּאָה designates what the earth yields when worked. It represents the bridge between human effort and material sustenance in an agricultural economy, making it a foundational term for understanding biblical discussions of blessing, property, obligation, and survival.
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It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
“For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
“ ‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;
For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”
then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,
The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”
As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.
also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.
It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.
The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
The remainder in the length, alongside the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.