Bible Dictionary: Hoe

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

2. (n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.

3. (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.

4. (v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

Strong's Hebrew

4576. mader -- a hoe
... mader. 4577 . a hoe. Transliteration: mader Phonetic Spelling: (mah-dare') Short
Definition: hoe. Word Origin from adar Definition a hoe NASB Word Usage hoe ( ...
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5737b. adar -- to hoe
... adar. 5737c . to hoe. Transliteration: adar Short Definition: cultivated. Word
Origin a prim. root Definition to hoe NASB Word Usage cultivated (1), hoed (1). ...
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4281. machareshah -- a plowshare
... 4280, 4281. machareshah. 4282 . a plowshare. Transliteration: machareshah
Phonetic Spelling: (makh-ar-ay-shaw') Short Definition: hoe. ...
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5737. adar -- to help
... A primitive root; to arrange, as a battle, a vineyard (to hoe); hence, to muster
and so to miss (or find wanting) -- dig, fail, keep (rank), lack. ...
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4282. macharesheth -- share
... Word Origin the same as machareshah, qv. share From charash; probably a hoe -- share.
see HEBREW charash. 4281, 4282. macharesheth. 4283 . Strong's Numbers
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855. eth -- a plowshare
... coulter, plowshare Of uncertain derivation; a hoe or other digging implement --
coulter, plowshare. 854, 855. eth. 855a . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

List of Characters and Places
... mythology. Hotep,"Hoe'-tep, the royal scribe, friend of Kenkenes, brother of
Bettis and Io. ... Kings. Imhotep,"Eem-hoe'-tep, the physician god. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/list of characters and places.htm

The "Little Knife" Insurrection
... society. For very many years there has existed in this region a society
by the name of 'Thian-te-hoe,' Heaven and Earth Society. ...
/.../fagg/forty years in south china/vi the little knife insurrection.htm

"Love and I" --A Mystery
... I read once of the plains of India, that they were so fertile that you had only
to tickle them with a hoe and they laughed with plenty, and surely such a text ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 28 1882/love and ia mystery.htm

The Exercises Suited to a Good Life.
... sufficient exercise. And were they to handle the hoe, this stroke of economy
in agricultural labour would not be ungentleman like. I ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter x the exercises suited to.htm

In Our Last Chapter we Sought to Show that in Rev. . .
... Few American Jews are anxious to emigrate to Palestine when there is nothing
more than a spade and a hoe at the end of the journey. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the antichrist/in our last chapter we.htm

The Outlaw
... THE OUTLAW. Oh, I wadna be a yeoman, mither, to follow my father's trade,
To bow my back in miry banks, at pleugh and hoe and spade. ...
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If You Give a Grape to Him when Hungry...
... on to ask what a wheel is, or a sledge, [3555] a winnowing-fan, jar, tub, an
oil-mill, ploughshare, or sieve, a mill-stone, ploughtail, or light hoe; a carved ...
/.../arnobius/the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/23 if you give a.htm

Vexilla Regis Prodeunt -3
... Praedamque tulit tartari. 6. O Crux, ave, spes unica; Hoe Passionis tempore,
Auge piis justitiam Reisque dona veniam. 7. Te summa ...
/.../no 182c vexilla regis prodeunt.htm

Warning.
... The farmer takes his hoe and his spade and his axe, and he cuts away the obnoxious
growths, and burns the roots out of the ground with fire. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/sowing and reaping/chapter viii warning.htm

Choosing the Tens
... Apart from these were the men of Israel, bearded and grave, stalwart and scantily
clad. They repaired a cable or fitted an ax-handle or mended a hoe. ...
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Thesaurus

Mattock (2 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary. (1.) Hebrews ma'eder, an instrument for dressing
or pruning a vineyard (Isaiah 7:25); a weeding-hoe. (2 ...
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Hoe (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the
earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the ...
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Hough (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) Same as Hock, a joint. 5. (vt) Same as Hock, to hamstring. 6. (n.) An adz;
a hoe. 7. (vt) To cut with a hoe. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. HOUGH. ...
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Irrigation
... the trenches. In stony soil the breach in the canal leading to a particular
plot is opened and closed with a hoe. Any obstruction ...
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Treading (26 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 7:25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come
there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of ...
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Dig (24 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen,
or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open ...
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Mine (2991 Occurrences)
... usual Egyptian method of mining was to follow the vein from the surface as far as
it was practicable with tools corresponding to our pick and hoe, hammer and ...
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Mining
... usual Egyptian method of mining was to follow the vein from the surface as far as
it was practicable with tools corresponding to our pick and hoe, hammer and ...
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Ploughshare (1 Occurrence)
... 1 Samuel 13:20 And all Israel went down to the Philistines, every man to get his
ploughshare, and his hoe, and his axe, and his sickle sharpened, (DBY YLT). ...
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Plow (11 Occurrences)
... The first plows were probably an adaptation of the ancient Egyptian hoe, where the
handle was lengthened in order that animals might be hitched to it. ...
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Bible Concordance

Hoe (2 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 13:20 And all Israel went down to the Philistines, every man to get his ploughshare, and his hoe, and his axe, and his sickle sharpened,
(DBY NAS)

Isaiah 7:25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."
(WEB DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Related Terms

Treading (26 Occurrences)

Dig (24 Occurrences)

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Mining

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