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Plow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

2. The emperor lays hold of the plow and turns up several furrows.

3. When fern succeeds, ungrateful to the plow

4. Figuratively, tillage; culture of the earth; agriculture.

5. A joiner's instrument for grooving.

Plow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To trench and turn up with a plow; as, to plow the ground for wheat; to plow it into ridges.

2. To furrow; to divide; to run through in sailing.

3. With speed we plow the watery wave.

4. To tear; to furrow.

5. In Scripture, to labor in any calling.

6. He that ploweth should plow in hope. 1 Corinthians 9:10 .

7. To plow on the back, to scourge; to mangle, or to persecute and torment. Psalms 129:3 .

8. To plow with one's heifer, to deal with the wife to obtain something from the husband. Judges 14:18 .

9. To plow iniquity or wickedness, and reap it, to devise and practice it, and at last suffer the punishment of it. Job 4:8 . Hosea 10:11 .

10. To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.

11. To plow up or out, to turn out of the ground by plowing.

12. To put one's hand to the plow and look back, is to enter on the service of Christ and afterwards abandon it. Luke 17:7 .

13. [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 .]

Plow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Plough

Plow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Plough

Plow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Plough

Plow-bote [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In English law, wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry.

Plow-land [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.

Plowable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughable

Plowbote [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughbote

Plowboy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a rustic boy.

Plowboy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughboy

Plowed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Turned up with a plow; furrowed.

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

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Plower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that plows land; a cultivator.

Plower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Plougher

Plowfoot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughfoot

Plowgang [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughgang

Plowgate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughgate

Plowhead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughhead

Plowing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The operation of turning up ground with a plow; as the first and second plowing; three plowings.

Plowing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Turning up with a plow; furrowing.

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

of Plough

Plowland [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Plougland

Plowman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that plows or holds a plow.

2. At last the robber binds the plowman and carries him off with the oxen.

3. A cultivator of grain; a husbandman.

4. A rustic; a countryman; a hardy laborer.

5. The Monday after twelfth-day.

Plowman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughman

Plowpoint [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughpoint

Plowshare [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The part of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of the furrow, and raises the slice to the mold-board, which turns it over.

Plowshare [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughshare

Plowtail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughtail

Plowwright [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ploughwright

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24 KJV and 29 BSB verses contain “plow” — showing the first 20. Show all 33 verses (searchable)

Genesis 45:6

For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Exodus 34:21

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

Deuteronomy 21:4

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:

bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

Deuteronomy 22:10

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

Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

Judges 14:18

And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”

1 Samuel 8:12

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.

1 Samuel 13:20

But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

1 Samuel 13:21

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

1 Samuel 14:14

And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

In that first assault, Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men over half an acre of land.

1 Kings 19:19

So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.

Job 1:14

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

Job 4:8

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

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Job 39:10

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

Psalms 129:3

The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

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.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Proverbs 21:4

An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.

Isaiah 2:4

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.

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 61:5

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.