Topic
Clod
6 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 7:5ISBE
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
- Job 21:33ISBE
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
- Job 38:38ISBE
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
- Isaiah 28:24ISBE
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
- Hosea 10:11ISBE
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
- Joel 1:17ISBE
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
In Job 7:5 (gish, gush, "a mass of earth"), "clods of dust," the crust of his sores, formed by the dry, swollen skin--a symptom of leprosy, though not peculiar to it. In Job 21:33; 38:38 (reghebh, "a soft clod," "lump of clay"), "The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him," "The clods cleave fast together." In Joe 1:17 (meghraphah, "a furrow," "something thrown off" (by the spade)), "The seeds rot (m "shrivel") under their clods."
Figurative: "Jacob shall break his clods" (Ho 10:11), i.e. "must harrow for himself," used figuratively of spiritual discipline (compare Isa 28:24 the King James Version).
M. O. Evans
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.