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# תֶּלֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8525

**furrow** — used 5 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

furrow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8525/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֶּ֫לֶם: n.m. furrow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8525/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 31:38 furrow;—abs. ת׳ Jb 39:10 (other conj. Du PerlesAnal. 53); pl. cstr. תַּלְמֵי שָׂדָ֑י Ho 10:14; 12:12; sf. תְּלָמֶיהָ Jb 31:38 ψ 65:11.—On ploughing in Pal. v. HoggEncy. Bib. agriculture VogelsteinLandwirthsch. 25 ff., on depth of furrow (not more than 8–10 centim.) Id.ib.36 AnderlindZPV ix.25, 29; also BenzArch. s. v.—תִּלָּם v. תֵּל supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] furrows (2); furrows (2); a furrow (1).

## In the verses

[Job 31:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.38/#tree)

אִם־עָ֭לַי אַדְמָתִ֣י תִזְעָ֑ק וְ֝יַ֗חַד תְּלָמֶ֥יהָ יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* if on me land my it.cried.out and together furrows its they wept

*JPS 1917:* If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;

[Job 39:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.10/#tree)

הֲ‍ֽתִקְשָׁר־רֵ֭ים בְּתֶ֣לֶם עֲבֹת֑וֹ אִם־יְשַׂדֵּ֖ד עֲמָקִ֣ים אַחֲרֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* will you.bind? \[the\].wild.ox in a.furrow rope its or? will.it.harrow valleys behind you

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8525.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8525/): 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).