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Soil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Dirt; and foul matter upon another substance; foulness; apot.

2. Stain; tarnish. A lady's honor will not bear a soil

3. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance with furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particulary adapted to support and nourish them.

4. Land; country. We love our native soil

5. Dung; compost. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.

6. TO TAKE SOIL , to run into the water, as a deer when pursued.

Soil [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make dirty on the surface; to foul; to dirt; to stain; to defile; to tarnish; to sull; as, to soil a garment with dust. Out wonted ornaments now soil'd and stain'd.

2. To cover or tinge with any thing extraneous; as, to soil the earth with blood.

3. To dung; to manure.

4. TO soil A HORSE , is to purge him by giving him fresh grass.

5. TO soil A CATTLE , in husbandry, is to feed them with grass daily mowed for them, instead of pasturing them.

Soil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.

2. Land; country.

3. Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.

4. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.

5. To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.

6. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

7. That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

Soil [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.

Soil [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.

2. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

Soiled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fouled; stained; tarnished; manured; fed with grass.

Soiled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Soil

Soiliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stain; foulness. [Little used.]

Soiliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stain; foulness.

Soiling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of practice of feeding cattle or horses with fresh grass, instead of pasturing them.

Soiling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Defiling; fouling; tarnishing; feeding with fresh grass; manuring.

Soiling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Soil

Soilless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Destitute of soil.

Soilless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Destitute of soil or mold.

Soilure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stain; pollution [Not in use.]

Soilure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stain; pollution.

Soily [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dirty; soiled.

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Genesis 4:2

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

Genesis 4:3

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

Genesis 9:20

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

Exodus 23:19

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Exodus 34:26

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

Numbers 13:20

And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

Deuteronomy 26:2

That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.

you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,

Deuteronomy 29:23

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

2 Kings 5:17

And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.

“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.

1 Chronicles 27:26

And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of the workers in the fields who tilled the soil.

2 Chronicles 7:20

Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

2 Chronicles 26:10

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

Job 14:8

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

Job 14:19

The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

Psalms 105:35

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.

Psalms 141:7

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Song of Solomon 5:3

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

I have taken off my robe— must I put it back on? I have washed my feet— must I soil them again?

Isaiah 28:24

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

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

Isaiah 34:7

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

Isaiah 34:9

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.