Word

תֶּלֶם

telem · H8525 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

furrow

Long, narrow trench made in the soil by a plow

Examples
Job 31:38 “If my land cries out against me, And its furrows weep together;
Job 39:10 “Can you tie down the wild bull in a furrow with ropes, Or will he plow the valleys after you?
Psalm 65:10 You water its furrows abundantly, You settle its ridges, You soften it with showers, You bless its growth.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 3 groups

שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 2
הּher 2
עֲבֹתrope 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בָּכָהto cry 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רָוָהto moisten 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against 3
בin/on/with 2

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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Near synonyms 1 word

מַעֲנָה maʻănâh · H4618 · furrow: Hebrew מַעֲנָה (occurring in Psalms 129:3 and Job 39:10) is a near-synonym for furrow, overlapping in agricultural contexts with תֶּלֶם but attested as a distinct lexeme in BDB/HALOT.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Land001002002: This noun denotes a furrow in cultivated land, as in Job 31:38's imprecation that his land cry out against him and its furrows weep together if he has sinned.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8525. telem תֶּ֫לֶם noun masculineJob 31:38 furrow; — absolute ׳ת Job 39:10 (other…

H8525. telem
תֶּ֫לֶם noun masculineJob 31:38 furrow; — absolute ׳ת Job 39:10 (other conjectures Du PerlesAnal. 53); plural construct שָׂדָ֑י תַּלְמֵי Hos 10:4; Hos 12:12; suffix תְּלָמֶיהָ Job 31:38; Psa 65:11. — On ploughing in Palestine see HoggEncy. Bib. AGRICULTURE VogelstLandwirthsch. 25 ff., on depth of furrow (not more than 8-10 centimeters) Idib.36 AnderlindZPV ix. 25, 29; also Benz Archaeology under the word — תִּלָּם see תֵּל above

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Land5 occurrences

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