Topic
Furrow
10 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.
- Psalms 65:10Easton · ISBE
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
- Hosea 10:4Easton · ISBE
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Hosea 10:10Easton · ISBE
It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
- 1 Samuel 14:14ISBE
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.
- Job 31:38ISBE
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
- Job 39:10ISBE
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
- Psalms 129:3ISBE
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- Ezekiel 17:7ISBE
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
- Ezekiel 17:10ISBE
Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
- Hosea 12:11ISBE
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 12 references
fur'-o (telem):
The word is translated "furrows" in Job 39:10; 31:38; Ps 65:10; Ho 10:4; 12:11 (Ps 65:10 the King James Version, "ridges"). In these passages the fields are pictured as they were in the springtime or late autumn. When the showers had softened the earth, the seed was sown and the soil turned over with the plow and left in furrows, not harrowed and pulverized as in our modern farming. The Syrian farmer today follows the custom of his ancient predecessors.
Another word, ma`anah, occurs in two passages, first in the figurative sense in Ps 129:3, and second in an obscure passage in 1Sa 14:14. Three other words, gedhudhah, `arughah, `ayin, translated "furrows" in the King James Version, are probably more properly rendered in the American Standard Revised Version "ridges" (Ps 65:10), "beds" (Eze 17:7,10), and "transgressions" (Ho 10:10).
See AGRICULTURE; PLOW.
James A. Patch
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); 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.