Mowing, Mown Grass
Mowing, Mown Grass
moing, (, gez, a shearing, cut grass): In Psa 72:6 the good king’s rule is said to be like rain upon the mown grass, to start the new growth (compare 2Sa 23:4; Hos 6:3). The king’s mowings Amo 7:1 were the portion of the spring herbage taken as tribute by the kings of Israel to feed their horses (compare 1Sa 8:15 ff; 1Sa 18:5). After the king’s mowings would denote the time when everybody else might turn to reap their greenstuffs (G. A. Smith, Book of the Twelve Prophets, II, 109). The term mower (, kacar, to dock off, shorten) in Psa 129:7 the King James Version is rendered reaper in the Revised Version (British and American), and in Jam 5:4 the Revised Version (British and American) has mow for , amao (the King James Version reap). See HARVEST; REAPING.