תֶּלֶםtelem
furrow (Job 31:38; Job 39:10; Hosea 10:4; Hosea 12:12; Psalms 65:11)
Pronunciation: teh'-lem · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8525
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Job 31:38 “If my land accuses me and all its furrows cry out together,
- Job 39:10 Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow? Will it plow a field for you?
- Psalms 65:10 You drench the plowed ground with rain, melting the clods and leveling the ridges. You soften the earth with showers and bless its abundant crops.
- Hosea 10:4 They spout empty words and make covenants they don’t intend to keep. So injustice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer’s field.
- Hosea 12:11 But the people of Gilead are worthless because of their idol worship. And in Gilgal, too, they sacrifice bulls; their altars are lined up like the heaps of stone along the edges of a plowed field.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).