Manners & Customs

Plough in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The ploughs of ancient Egypt consisted of a share-often pointed with iron or bronze--two handles and a pole which was inserted into the base of the two handles. Ploughs in Israel have usually but one handle with a pole joined to it near the ground and drawn by oxen, cows or camels....

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Plow Scripture - Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing....

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Polygamy Scripture - Malachi 2:15

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth....

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Pools in Naves Topical Bible

Of Samaria 1Ki 22:38 -Of Jerusalem Upper pool 2Ki 18:17; Isa 36:2 Lower pool Isa 22:9 Siloam (Shelah) Ne 3:15; Joh 9:7,11 Of Heshbon So 7:4...

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Pools Scripture - Psalms 84:6

[Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools....

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Pottery in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The art of pottery is one of the most common and most ancient of all manufactures. It is abundantly evident, both that the Hebrews used earthenware vessels in the wilderness and that the potter's trade was afterward carried on in Israel. They had themselves been concerned in the potter's trade in Egypt, Ps 81:6 and the wall-paintings minutely ...

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Potter Scripture - Revelation 2:27

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father....

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Phylacteries Scripture - Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,...

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Physician Scripture - Jeremiah 8:22

[Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?...

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Plough in Easton's Bible Dictionary

first referred to in Gen. 45:6, where the Authorized Version has "earing," but the Revised Version "ploughing;" next in Ex. 34:21 and Deut. 21:4. The plough was originally drawn by oxen, but sometimes also by asses and by men. (See AGRICULTURE -T0000124.)...

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