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ἄροτρον

árotron · G723 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. plow

    A flat triangular blade (the “plowshare”) made of hard wood or metal, connected to a handle; used to cut the soil in preparation for the sowing of seed or the planting of seedlings

    Examples

    Luke 9:62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
אֵת ʼêth · H855 · mattock, with, together with
ἄροτρον (árotron, G723) denotes the entire plow implement, while אֵת (ʼêth, H855) specifically refers to the plowshare or coulter (the cutting blade component); meronymic relationship where the Hebrew term designates a part of the implement the Greek term denotes as a whole.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Plow6.4
In Luke 9:62, Jesus says, “no one, after putting his hand to the plow (árotron) and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God,” naming the farming implement itself.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἄροτρονárotron · G723ἀροτριόω arotrióō · G722 · to plow, to use a plow · 3×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀρότρου, τό (ἀρόω to plow), a plow: Lk 9:62. (In Greek writings from Homer down.)
ἀρότρου, τό (ἀρόω to plow), a plow: Lk 9:62. (In Greek writings from Homer down.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Instruments Used in Agriculture and Husbandry1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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