qerivzw qerivzw; future qerivsw (Buttmann, 37 (32), cf. WH's Appendix, p. 163f); 1 aorist ejqerisa; 1 aorist passive ejqerivsqhn; (qevro"); the Septuagint for rx'q;; (from Aeschylus, Herodotus down); to reap, harvest; a. properly: ; ; ; (figuratively, (twice)). b. in proverbial expressions about sowing and reaping: a[llo" ... oJ qerivzwn, one does the work, another gets the reward, f (where the meaning is `ye hereafter, in winning over a far greater number of the Samaritans to the kingdom of God, will enjoy the fruits of the work which I have now commenced among them' (others do not restrict the reference to converted Samaritans)); qerivzwn o{pou oujk e[speira", unjustly appropriating to thyself the fruits of others' labor, ,; f; oJ ejavn ... qerivsei, as a man has acted (on earth) so (hereafter by God) will he be requited, either with reward or penalty (his deeds will determine his doom), (a proverb: ut sententem feceris, ita metes, Cicero, de orat. 2, 65; (suv dev tau'ta aijscrw'" mevn e[speira" kakw'" dev ejqerisa", Aristotle, rhet. 3, 3, 4; cf. Plato, Phaedr. 260 d.; see Meyer on Galatians, the passage cited)); tiv, to receive a thing by way of reward or punishment: tav sarkikav, ; fqoravn, zwhvn aijwvnion, , (speivrein purouv", qerivzein ajkavnqa", ; oJ speivrwn fau'la qerivsei kakav, ; ejavn speivrhte kakav, pa'san tarachvn kaiv qli'yin qerisete, Test xii. Patr., p. 576 (i. e. test. Levi sec. 13)); absolutely: of the reward of well-doing, ; . c. As the crops are cut down with the sickle, qerivzein, is figuratively used for to destroy, cut off: ; with the addition of thvn gh'n, to remove the wicked inhabitants of the earth and deliver them up to destruction, (thvn !Asivan, Plutarch, reg. et. imper. apophthegm. (Antig. 1), p. 182 a.).*