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# harrow

noun (harrows); verb (harrow, harrows, harrowed, harrowing)

«harrow» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A harrow is a heavy frame with metal spikes or teeth, pulled over ploughed ground to break up the soil and make it ready for seed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#m1)
2. (verb) To harrow is to go over the soil with a harrow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#m2)

### In the lessons

a farm tool in farm tales; in the lessons it names the kind of tool a peasant uses after the plough; in stories «a harrow» can also be a thing that causes great pain (verb: to distress someone)

### Examples

- The peasant left his plough and his harrow in the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#x1)
- Dad pulled the harrow behind the tractor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#x2)
- The farmer harrowed the field before sowing the seed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

A tool for farming, and in war a cruel iron tool used on captives. As a verb it means to break up soil.

**Interpretation.** Isaiah uses the farmer's careful work as a picture of God's wise and orderly ways.

### Examples

- Or will he harrow the valleys after thee? (Writings JOB.39.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x1)
- Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground? (Prophets ISA.28.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x2)
- And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. (Writings 1CH.20.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «harrow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«harrow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/harrow.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «harrow» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«harrow» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/harrow.html) on Mova free.