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Mowing

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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In Scripture means "reaping with a sickle", for the heat dries up the grass before it is high enough for the scythe (Psalms 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.

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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Mowing'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​m/mowing.html. 1949.
 
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