16 occurrences in 4 translations

'Ploughed' in the Bible

And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterDislocatingUnused

And the men of the city say to him on the seventh day, before the sun goeth in: -- 'What is sweeter than honey? And what stronger than a lion?' And he saith to them: 'Unless ye had ploughed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.'

Verse ConceptsPloughingHeifersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekStrength Of AnimalsMetaphorical PloughingSweetnessDay 7

And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestGrindingFractions, One TenthTithesFirst fruitsTithes And Offering

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsComplaining

You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

Verse ConceptsFurrowsShowersSoftnessGod BlessesChange And Growth

Wicked people ploughed over my back, creating long-lasting wounds."

Verse ConceptsFurrowsPloughingMetaphorical Ploughing

There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfPlenty For The PoorAgricultureInjusticeFeeding The Poor

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

Verse ConceptsPloughingNot SowingMetaphorical PloughingFallow Landa new beginningBreakupsFarmingSpilling Your Seed On The Groundsowingtransition

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Verse ConceptsForestsProphecy, Methods Of OtZion, As A SymbolArchaeologyProphesyingDestruction Of JerusalemMetaphorical PloughingNamed Prophets Of The Lord

For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

Verse ConceptsPloughingTilling The SoilMetaphorical PloughingMetaphorical PlantingGod For Us

Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguageInjustice, Examples OfLawsuitsPerjuryFurrowsPoisonTreatyWeedsCursingSwearing Oaths FalselyMere TalkNo Justice

Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfFalse ConfidencePride, Examples OfFruits Of SinMetaphorical PloughingReapingTrusting Other PeopleGod's People SinningInjustice

In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.

Verse ConceptsFurrowsUseless IdolsCairnsSacrificing Cattle

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

Verse ConceptsPloughingPoisonTilling The SoilBitter FoodNo Justice

Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house is for high places of a forest!

Verse ConceptsZion, As A SymbolArchaeologyDestruction Of JerusalemMetaphorical PloughingThings On HighWhy It Happened

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