Plowing
חָרִישׁStrong’s H2758charish (cha-rish)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charish is the Hebrew word usually translated “plowing”, “at plowing time” and “plowing his”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.”
Meaning
- Ploughing, ploughing time
How it's translated
- plowing 1
- at plowing time 1
- plowing his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 34:21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
- 1 Samuel 8:12And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
Hebrew dictionary
חָרִישׁ charish · plowing
ploughing, ploughing time
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plowing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLOW'ING, participle present
tense Turning up with a plow; furrowing.
All definitions and other forms of “plowing”
PLOW'ING, noun
The operation of turning up ground with a plow; as the first and second plowing; three plowings.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.