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( âַãåּã , gedud', an incision, e.g. in the soil, Psa_65:10; îִòֲðָä ; maanah', a tilling with the plough, Psa_129:3; úֶּìֶí , to'lem, Job_31:38; Job_39:10; Hos_10:4; Hos_12:11, a ridge, as rendered Psa_65:10;
òֲøåּâָä , ar-gahc' Eze_17:8; Eze_17:10, a bed is a garden, as rendered Son_5:13; Son_6:2), an opening is the ground made by a plough or other instrment (Psalm 65:104; Hos_10:4). Roberts, on Job_31:38, "If my land try against me, or that the furrows likewise, thereof complain," observes that similar proverbs are common among the Hinduis. SEE AGRICULTURE.
In Hos_10:10, the text has
òéֹðֹúָí
, i.e.,
òֵðֹúָí
, their [two] eyes, which the A.Vers. seems to have pointed
òåֹðֵúָí
; and even thus it will hardly bear their rendering, "these [two] furrows" (as if from
òָðָä
, to till, the same root as in the second Hebrew word above); but the margin, with all the versions (Davidson's Hebrew Text, page 125), has
òֲåðֹåֹúָí
, their [two] iniquities, referring to the golden calves at Dan and Bethel (Henderson, Comment. ad loc.). SEE CALF, GOLDEN.