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Plow
King James Dictionary
or PLOW, n.
1. In agriculture, an instrument for turning up, breaking and preparing the ground for receiving the seed. It is drawn by oxen or horses and saves the labor of digging it is therefore the most useful instrument in agriculture.
The emperor lays hold of the plow and turns up several furrows.
When fern succeeds, ungrateful to the plow.
2. Figuratively, tillage culture of the earth agriculture.
3. A joiner's instrument for grooving.
PLOW, To trench and turn up with a plow as, to plow the ground for wheat to plow it into ridges.
1. To furrow to divide to run through in sailing.
With speed we plow the watery wave.
2. To tear to furrow.
3. In Scripture, to labor in any calling.
He that ploweth should plow in hope. 1 Corinthians 9
To plow on the back, to scourge to mangle, or to persecute and torment. Psalms 129
To plow with one's heifer, to deal with the wife to obtain something from the husband. Judges 14 .
To plow iniquity or wickedness, and reap it, to devise and practice it, and at last suffer the punishment of it. Job 14Hos 10
To plow in, to cover by plowing as, to plow in wheat.
To plow up or out, to turn out of the ground by plowing.
To put one's hand to the plow and look back, is to enter on the service of Christ and afterwards abandon it. Luke 9 .
This difference of orthography often made between the noun and verb is wholly unwarrantable, and contrary to settled analogy in our language. Such a difference is never made in changing into verbs, plot, harrow, notice, question, and most other words. See Practice.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Plow'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/plow.html.
