Easton's Bible Dictionary (Hebrews gez), rendered in Psalm 72:6 "mown grass." The expression "king's mowings" (Amos 7:1) refers to some royal right of early pasturage, the first crop of grass for the cavalry (Comp. 1 Kings 18:5). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mow. 2. (n.) The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows. 3. (n.) Land from which grass is cut; meadow land. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia MOWING; MOWN GRASS mo'-ing, (gez, "a shearing," "cut grass"): In Psalm 72:6 the good king's rule is said to be "like rain upon the mown grass," to start the new growth (compare 2 Samuel 23:4 Hosea 6:3). "The king's mowings" (Amos 7:1) were the portion of the spring herbage taken as tribute by the kings of Israel to feed their horses (compare 1 Samuel 8:15;; 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") in Psalm 129:7 the King James Version is rendered "reaper" in the Revised Version (British and American), and in James 5:4 the Revised Version (British and American) has "mow" for amao (the King James Version "reap"). See HARVEST; REAPING. M. O. Evans

Multi-Version Concordance Mowing (1 Occurrence) Amos 7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. (Root in KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)