To harrow
שָׂדַדStrong’s H7702sadad (sa-dad)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sadad is the Hebrew word usually translated “it harrow”, “may harrow” and “it will harrow”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?”
Meaning
- (Piel) to harrow
How it's translated
- will it harrow 1
- and he may harrow 1
- it will harrow 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 28:24Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
- Hosea 10:11And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂדַד sadad · to harrow
(Piel) to harrow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “harrow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAR'ROW, noun
An instrument of agriculture, formed of pieces of timber sometimes crossing each other, and set with iron teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, and to cover seed when sown.
All definitions and other forms of “harrow”
HAR'ROW, verb transitive
To draw a harrow over, for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed sown; as, to harrow land or ground.
- To break or tear with a harrow“Will he harrow the valleys after thee?” Job 39:10
- To tear; to lacerate; to torment.
- To pillage; to strip; to lay waste by violence. [Not used.]
- To disturb; to agitate.
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.