Day 52 of 75 · Parables and teaching

Ḥ-Ṣ-D

ḥtsada: harvest

חצדא · חצדא

ܚܨܕܐ · ܚܨܳܕ݂ܳܐ

The feel

Ḥtsada is harvest: the ripe crop, the season of reaping, and the work of cutting and gathering. You meet urgency here. Seed can wait in the barn, but standing grain cannot. Ripeness is a window. In the corpus, the pressure falls on willing workers and right timing, never on the grain.

The root family

Form	Pattern	Transliteration	Script	Standard	Qala rendering
Noun, "harvest"	emphatic noun	ḥṣādā	חצדא ܚܨܳܕ݂ܳܐ	harvest	harvest · the reaping · the ingathering
Verb, "reaping"	peal active participle, plural	ḥāṣdin	חצדין ܚܳܨܕ݁ܺܝܢ	to reap	to reap · to harvest
Agent noun, "harvesters"	doer pattern, plural	ḥāṣude	חצודא ܚܳܨܽܘܕ݂ܶܐ	reapers	the harvesters (Mt 13:39)

Paradigm forms are a teaching scaffold from standard Aramaic grammar; corpus-attested words above are drawn from the glossary and the interlinear (Mt 9:37; Jn 4:35; Mk 4:29; Mt 13:39).

The verb stems

Stem	Force	Form here	Sense
Peal	simple active	ḥṣad	to reap, corpus-attested: ḥāṣdin, "they reap" (Mt 6:26; Lk 12:24; Jn 4:36–38)
Ethpeel	simple passive	—	not attested in this corpus
Pael	intensive	—	not attested in this corpus
Ethpaal	intensive passive	—	not attested in this corpus
Aphel	causative	—	not attested in this corpus
Ettaphal	causative passive	—	not attested in this corpus
Shaphel	rare causative	—	not attested in this corpus

Stem table is a grammar scaffold: how Aramaic bends one root through voice and cause.

In his voice

Matthew 9:37

Then he said to his students, "The harvest is great, but the workers are few.

ḥṣādā : "the harvest," set against pāʿle , "the workers" (tomorrow's root). The crop is not the problem; the crew is.

John 4:35

Don't you say, 'Four more months, and then the harvest comes'? Look, I tell you: lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are ripe for harvest already.

laḥṣādā … ḥṣādā , the root twice: the harvest you schedule for later, and the one already standing white in front of you.

Mark 4:29

And as soon as the grain is ready, he sends in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

ḥṣādā : "the harvest has come," with maglā , the sickle. Ripeness itself gives the order; the reaper only answers it.

Practice

Lift up your eyes for two minutes. Name what is ripe now: a conversation, a formed decision, a person ready to hear. Choose one standing crop in your life, and act while its window is open.

Say it plainly: zarʿa waits, ḥtsada cannot. Name one field in your life that is ripe now.

Connections

Z-R-ʿ (Day 51)P-ʿ-L (Day 53)laḥṣādā ḥāṣdin

Witness note: the forms above rest on the Peshitta as the primary witness, with Palestinian Aramaic attestation marked where a Western source carries the word.

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