Mowing
Mowing
(, gez, Vulg. tonsio, Amo 7:1; the Sept. reads , either from a various reading or a confusion of the letters and ), a word signifying also a shorn fleece, and rendered in Psa 72:6, “mown grass.” 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 term “hay,” therefore, in the Prayer-book version of Psa 106:20, for , is incorrect; A.V. “grass.” So also Pro 27:25, and Isa 15:6. The corn destined for forage is cut with a sickle. The term , A.V. “mower,” Psa 129:7, is most commonly in A.V. “reaper,” and once, Jer 9:22, “harvestman.” SEE REAPING.
The “king’s mowings,” Amo 7:1, i.e., mown grass, Psa 72:6, may perhaps refer to some royal right of early pasturage for the use of the cavalry. Comp. 1Ki 18:5. See Shaw, Trav. page 138; Wilkinson, Anc. Eg. abridgm. 2:43, 50; Early Trav. page 305; Pietro d. Valle, Viasgi, 2:237; Chardin, Voy. 3:370; Layard, Nin. cand Bab. page 330; Niebuhr, Descr. de l’Arab. page 139; Harmer, Obs. 4:386; Burckhardt, Notes on Bed. 1:210. SEE GRASS.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Mowing
(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).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Mowing
In Scripture means “reaping with a sickle”, for the heat dries up the grass before it is high enough for the scythe (Psa 129:7). In Amo 7:1 “the king’s mowings” were the firstfruits of the pastures, tyrannically exacted. “The latter growth” was “the after grass” in the time of the latter rain.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Mowing
Psa 72:6; Psa 90:6; Psa 129:7; Amo 7:1
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Mowing
Mowing. 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,” Amo 7:1, may perhaps refer to some royal right, of early pasturage for the use of the cavalry.