mo'-ing, (gez, "a shearing," "cut grass"): InPs 72:6the good king's rule is said to be "like rain upon the mown grass," to start the new growth (compare2Sa 23:4;Ho 6:3). "The king's mowings" (Am 7:1) were the portion of the spring herbage taken as tribute by the kings of Israel to feed their horses (compare1Sa 8:15ff; 18:5). "After the king's mowings" would denote the time when everybody else might turn to reap their greenstuffs (BTP, II, 109). The term "mower" (qatsar, "to dock off," "shorten") inPs 129:7the King James Version is rendered "reaper" in the Revised Version (British and American), and inJas 5:4the Revised Version (British and American) has "mow" for amao (the King James Version "reap").
M. O. Evans