Furrow
מַעֲנָהStrong’s H4618maanah (ma-a-nah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “furrow” and “furrows their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.”
Meaning
- Ploughing ground, place for task
How it's translated
- a furrow 1
- furrows their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲנָה maanah · furrow
ploughing ground, place for task
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “furrow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FUR'ROW, noun
[Gr. to plow.]
- A trench in the earth made by a plow.
- A long narrow trench or channel in wood or metal; a groove.
- A hollow made by wrinkles in the face.
All definitions and other forms of “furrow”
FUR'ROW, verb transitive
- To cut a furrow; to make furrows in; to plow.
- To make long narrow channels or grooves in.
- To cut; to make channels in; to plow; as, to furrow the deep.
- To make hollows in by wrinkles.
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.