mowing Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
mowing in Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Heb. gez), rendered in Ps. 72:6 "mown grass." The expression "king's mowings" (Amos 7:1) refers to some royal right of early pasturage, the first crop of grass for the cavalry (compare 1 Kings 18:5).
mowing in Smith's Bible Dictionary
As the great heat of the climate in Israel and other similarly situated countries soon dries up the herbage itself, hay-making in our sense of the term is not in use. The "king's mowings," #Am 7:1| may perhaps refer to some royal right of early pasturage for the use of the cavalry.
mowing in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
In Scripture means "reaping with a sickle", for the heat dries up the grass before it is high enough for the scythe (Psalm 129:7). In Amos 7:1 "the king's mowings" were the firstfruits of the pastures, tyrannically exacted. "The latter growth" was "the after grass" in the time of the latter rain.