Ploughing

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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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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Plow Scripture - Job 4:8

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same....

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Plough Scripture - Luke 9:62

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God....

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Plow Scripture - Deuteronomy 22:10

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together....

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Plow Scripture - 1 Corinthians 9:10

Or saith he [it] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope....

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Plow Scripture - Hosea 10:11

And 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....

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Plow Scripture - Isaiah 28:24

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?...

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Plow in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

plou (charash; arotrioo): No implement of the Bible is more frequently illustrated today than the plow. This is partly because there is every reason to believe that the plows still used throughout Egypt, Israel, and Syria are counterparts of the ancient ones. The first plows were probably an adaptation of the ancient Egyptian hoe, where the h...

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