International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
FURROWfur'-o (telem):
The word is translated "furrows" in Job 39:10; Job 31:38 Psalm 65:10 Hosea 10:4; Hosea 12:11 (Psalm 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 Psalm 129:3, and second in an obscure passage in 1 Samuel 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" (Psalm 65:10), "beds" (Ezekiel 17:7, 10), and "transgressions" (Hosea 10:10).
See AGRICULTURE; PLOW.
James A. Patch
Easton's Bible Dictionary
An opening in the ground made by the plough (
Psalm 65:10;
Hosea 10:4, 10).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
2. (n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
3. (n.) To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
4. (n.) To mark with channels or with wrinkles.
Strong's Hebrew
8525. telem -- a furrow... << 8524, 8525. telem. 8526 >>. a
furrow. Transliteration: telem Phonetic Spelling:
(teh'-lem) Short Definition: furrows.
... furrow, ridge.
... /hebrew/8525.htm - 5k 1417. gedud -- a furrow, cutting
... << 1416, 1417. gedud or gedudah. 1418 >>. a furrow, cutting. Transliteration: gedud
or gedudah Phonetic Spelling: (ghed-ood') Short Definition: gashes. ... furrow. ...
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4618. maanah -- a field for plowing
... << 4617, 4618. maanah. 4619 >>. a field for plowing. Transliteration: maanah Phonetic
Spelling: (mah-an-aw') Short Definition: furrow. ... furrow. ...
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6170. arugah -- a garden terrace or bed
... Definition: beds. Word Origin from arag Definition a garden terrace or bed
NASB Word Usage bed (1), beds (3). bed, furrow. Or iarugah ...
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5869. ayin -- an eye
... before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease,
eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin ...
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5214. nir -- to break up, freshly till
... break up. A root probably identical with that of niyr, through the idea of the gleam
of a fresh furrow; to till the soil -- break up. see HEBREW niyr. ...
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