Furrow
Furrow
(, gedud’, an incision, e.g. in the soil, Psa 65:10; ; maanah’, a tilling with the plough, Psa 129:3; , to’lem, Job 31:38; Job 39:10; Hos 10:4; Hos 12:11, a ridge, as rendered Psa 65:10;
, ar-gahc’ Eze 17:8; Eze 17:10, a bed is a garden, as rendered Son 5:13; Son 6:2), an opening is the ground made by a plough or other instrment (Psalm 65:104; Hos 10:4). Roberts, on Job 31:38, “If my land try against me, or that the furrows likewise, thereof complain,” observes that similar proverbs are common among the Hinduis. SEE AGRICULTURE.
In Hos 10:10, the text has , i.e., , their [two] eyes, which the A.Vers. seems to have pointed ; and even thus it will hardly bear their rendering, “these [two] furrows” (as if from , to till, the same root as in the second Hebrew word above); but the margin, with all the versions (Davidson’s Hebrew Text, page 125), has , their [two] iniquities, referring to the golden calves at Dan and Bethel (Henderson, Comment. ad loc.). SEE CALF, GOLDEN.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Furrow
an opening in the ground made by the plough (Ps. 65:10; Hos. 10:4, 10).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Furrow
furo (, telem): The word is translated furrows in Job 39:10; Job 31:38; Psa 65:10; Hos 10:4; Hos 12:11 (Psa 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, , maanah, occurs in two passages, first in the figurative sense in Psa 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 (Psa 65:10), beds (Eze 17:7, Eze 17:10), and transgressions (Hos 10:10). See AGRICULTURE; PLOW.