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20 Bible Verses About Autumn

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  • The ESV uses the word autumn in Proverbs 20:4, Jeremiah 5:24 and Jude 1:12.
  • The “autumn rain” of Jeremiah 5:24 is yoreh, which the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon places from the last of October to the first of December; Deuteronomy 11:14 calls it the early rain.
  • The Feast of Booths was kept after the produce of threshing floor and winepress was gathered in, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (Deuteronomy 16:13; Leviticus 23:39).
  • Proverbs 20:4 warns against skipping the autumn plowing, and Hosea 10:12 turns breaking up fallow ground into a call to seek the Lord.
  • Jesus uses the harvest for people ready to be gathered in Matthew 9:37-38 and John 4:35, and Revelation 14:15-16 uses it for the reaping of the earth.

In the Bible, autumn is the season when the harvest is gathered in, the first rains fall and the ground is plowed for the next crop. The English Standard Version uses the word itself for the autumn rain God sends (Jeremiah 5:24), the plowing a sluggard skips (Proverbs 20:4) and the fruitless trees of late autumn (Jude 1:12). The same season appears without the word: God promises that seedtime and harvest will not cease (Genesis 8:22), Israel keeps the Feast…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 3138, יוֹרֶה (yoreh): early rain; Brown-Driver-Briggs places it “from the last of October until the first of December.” biblehub.com/hebrew/3138

Strong’s Hebrew 4456, מַלְקוֹשׁ (malqosh): latter rain, spring rain. biblehub.com/hebrew/4456

Strong’s Hebrew 2779, חֹרֶף (choreph): harvest time, autumn, winter; Brown-Driver-Briggs on Proverbs 20:4, “a sluggard ploughs not after harvest.” biblehub.com/hebrew/2779

Strong’s Greek 5352, φθινοπωρινός (phthinoporinos): autumnal; one New Testament occurrence, Jude 1:12, with Thayer’s note “leafless and without fruit.” biblehub.com/greek/5352

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