Topic
Acre
2 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Samuel 14:14Easton · Nave The indefinite quantity of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day, with the kinds of plows, and modes of plowing, used in the times referred to
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
- Isaiah 5:10Easton · Nave The indefinite quantity of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day, with the kinds of plows, and modes of plowing, used in the times referred to
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 2 references
Is the translation of a word (tse’med), which properly means a yoke, and denotes a space of ground that may be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in a day. It is about an acre of our measure (Isa. 5:10; 1 Sam. 14:14).
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.