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# אִכָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H406

**ploughman** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ploughman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/406/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִכָּר: n.m. ploughman, husbandman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/406/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jo 1:11 ploughman, husbandman (Ar. أَكَّارٌ, Aramaic ܐܰܟܳܪܳܐ, אִיכָּרָא, cf. Mish.) א׳ sg. abs. Je 51:23 (+ וְצִמְדּוֹ) Am 5:16; pl. אִכָּרִים Je 14:4; 31:24(23) (‖ וְנָֽסְעוּ בָעֵדֶר) 2 Ch 26:10 (‖ כֹּרְמִים) Jo 1:11 (‖ id.), אִכָּרֵיכֶם Is 61:5 (‖ id.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: farmers (3); O farmers (1); a farmer (1).

## In the verses

[Joel 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.11/#tree)

הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ אִכָּרִ֗ים הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ כֹּֽרְמִ֔ים עַל־חִטָּ֖ה וְעַל־שְׂעֹרָ֑ה כִּ֥י אָבַ֖ד קְצִ֥יר שָׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* be.ashamed O.farmers wail O.vinedressers on \[the\].wheat and on \[the\].barley (dm) it.has.perished \[the\].harvest of.\[the\].field

*JPS 1917:* Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

[Isaiah 61:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.61.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.61.5/#tree)

וְעָמְד֣וּ זָרִ֔ים וְרָע֖וּ צֹאנְכֶ֑ם וּבְנֵ֣י נֵכָ֔ר אִכָּרֵיכֶ֖ם וְכֹרְמֵיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.stand strangers and they.will.shepherd flock\[s\] your and sons of.foreignness be\].your.farmers \[will and vinedressers your

*JPS 1917:* And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/406.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/406/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).