[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sown/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) / sown # sown verb form (sown; from sow) «sown» 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. Sown is the past participle of sow: planted as seeds. The farmer has sown wheat in the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#m1) 2. «Sown with» means spread with something, like a field sown with seeds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#m2) ### In the lessons Maths: seeds or fields planted, often a rate per acre. Farming and science: seeds are sown in spring; you reap what you sow (a saying: what you do comes back to you). Stories and old texts. ### Examples - The field was sown with 50 kg of seed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x1) - 3 acres have been sown. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x2) - How many rows are sown? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x3) - Each acre sown needs 2 bags of seed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x4) - The beans were sown in neat rows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x5) - Once the seeds are sown, water them gently. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x6) - The farmer had sown corn in the big field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x7) - SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x8) ### Note Sow, sowed, sown (or sowed). Seeds or fields planted, often a rate per acre. Trap: do not read «sown» as «sewn» (with a needle). «Sow» (seeds) rhymes with «go»; a «sow» (a female pig) rhymes with «cow». ## In Jewish tradition Interpretation: Seed that is sown is still kept clean even if a dead creature touches it, and sowing mixed seeds in a vineyard is forbidden. Tradition reads these laws as keeping God's order of creation. The Psalms say "light is sown for the righteous", a picture of hope for good people, and Ezekiel promises that the land will be tilled and sown again. In the primary lessons: Maths: seeds or fields planted, often a rate per acre. Farming and science: seeds are sown in spring; you reap what you sow (a saying: what you do comes back to you). Stories and old texts. ### Examples - And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. (Torah LEV.11.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sown/#x1) - Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed; lest the fulness of the seed which thou hast sown be forfeited together with the increase of the vineyard. (Torah DEU.22.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sown/#x2) - And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which may neither be plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. (Torah DEU.21.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sown/#x3) - Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. (Writings PSA.97.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sown/#x4) - For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown; (Prophets EZK.36.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sown/#x5) - And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them; (Prophets JDG.6.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sown/#x6) ### Note Sow, sowed, sown (or sowed). Seeds or fields planted, often a rate per acre. Trap: do not read «sown» as «sewn» (with a needle). «Sow» (seeds) rhymes with «go»; a «sow» (a female pig) rhymes with «cow». ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «sown» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«sown» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sown.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «sown» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sown/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«sown» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/sown.html) on Mova free.