(Heb. gez), rendered in Ps. 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).
Mowing
Cutting grass is a picture the Bible uses for both mercy and how short life is. A king’s reign is hoped to come down “like rain upon the mown grass”, and the psalmist says of people that in the morning they flourish and in the evening are cut down and wither. Psalm 129 mentions the mower who cannot fill his hand. Amos sees a vision of locusts arriving at the latter growth, after the king’s mowings, when the second crop was coming up. Read Psalm 90:5-6 for the plainest picture.
4 verses
Psalms
Psalms 72:6
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Psalms 90:6
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms 129:7
Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Amos
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.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
As the great heat of the climate in Palestine and other similarly situated countries soon dries up the herbage itself, hay-making in our sense of the term is not in use. The "king’s mowings," (Amos 7:1) may perhaps refer to some royal right of early pasturage for the use of the cavalry.