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Tillage <ref name=" | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_63759" /> == | ||
<p> ''''' | <p> [[Till'Age,]] n. The operation, practice or art of preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground free from weeds which might impede the growth of crops. [[Tillage]] includes manuring, plowing, harrowing and rolling land, or whatever is done to bring it to a proper state to receive the seed, and the operations of plowing, harrowing and hoeing the ground, to destroy weeds and loosen the soil after it is planted culture a principal branch of agriculture. Tillage of the earth is the principal as it was the first occupation of man, and no employment is more honorable. </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_185715" /> == | |||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops. </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_63276" /> == | |||
<p> (prop. עִבִוֹדָה, ''abodah,'' 1 Chronicles 27:26; Nehemiah 10:37, ''work,'' i.e. "service" or "bondage," as elsewhere rendered; so occasionally עָבִד, to "till," "tilleth," "tiller," etc., lit. worker; but ניר, ''nir,'' Proverbs 13:23, means ''fallow ground,'' as elsewhere rendered). (See [[Agriculture]]). </p> | |||
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<ref name="term_63759"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/tillage Tillage from King James Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_185715"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/tillage Tillage from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_63276"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/tillage Tillage from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |||
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