Furrow
תֶּ֫לֶםStrong’s H8525telem (te-lem)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Telem is the Hebrew word usually translated “furrows its”, “furrows of” and “furrow”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;”
Meaning
- Furrow
How it's translated
- furrows its 2
- furrows of 2
- in a furrow 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Hosea 2
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 39:10Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
- Psalms 65:10Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
- Hosea 10:4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Hosea 12:11Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Hebrew dictionary
תֶּ֫לֶם telem · furrow
furrow
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.