Topic
Earing
5 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 45:6Easton · Smith · ISBE
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
- Exodus 34:21Easton · Smith · ISBE
¶ Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
- Deuteronomy 21:4Easton · ISBE
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
- 1 Samuel 8:12Easton · ISBE
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
- Isaiah 30:24Easton · ISBE
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
An Old English word (from the Latin aro, I plough), meaning “ploughing.” It is used in the Authorized Version in Gen. 45:6; Ex. 34:21; 1 Sam. 8:12; Deut. 21:4; Isa. 30:24; but the Revised Version has rendered the original in these places by the ordinary word to plough or till.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); 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.