Clod
מֶגְרָפָהStrong’s H4053migraphah (mig-ra-phah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Migraphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shovels their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.”
Meaning
- Shovelclod (that thrown by a shovel) (possible)
How it's translated
- shovels their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מֶגְרָפָה migraphah · clod
1) shovel 1a) clod (that thrown by a shovel) (possible)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “clod” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLOD, noun
- A hard lump of earth, of any kind; a mass of earth cohering.
- A lump or mass of metal.
- Turf; the ground.
- That which is earthy, base and vile, as the body of man compared to his soul.
All definitions and other forms of “clod”
- A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
- Any thing concreted.
CLOD, verb intransitive
To collect into concretions, or a thick mass; to coagulate; as clodded gore.
CLOD, verb transitive
To pelt with clods.
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.