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| <p> '''''ā´kẽr''''' ( צמד , <i> '''''cemedh''''' </i> ): A term of land-measurement used twice in the [[English]] versions of the [[Bible]] (Isaiah 5:10; 1 [[Samuel]] 14:14 ), and said to be the only term in square measure found in the [[Old]] Testament. The English word "acre" originally signified field. Then it came to denote the measure of land that an ox team could plow in a day, and upon the basis of a maximum acre of this kind the standard acre of 160 square rods (with variations in different regions) was fixed. The [[Hebrew]] word translated acre denotes a yoke of animals, in the sense of a team, a span, a pair; it is never used to denote the yoke by which the team are coupled together. The phrase 'ten yokes of vineyard' (Isaiah 5:10 ) may naturally mean vineyard covering as much land as a team would plow in ten days, though other plausible meanings can also be suggested. [[In]] 1 Samuel 14:14 the same word is used in describing the limits of space within which [[Jonathan]] and his armor-bearer slew twenty Philistines. The translation of the [[Revised]] [[Version]] (British and American), "within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land," means, strictly, that they were slain along a line from two to twenty rods in length. The word rendered "furrow," used only here and in [[Psalm]] 129:3 , is in Brown's <i> Hebrew [[Lexicon]] </i> defined as "plowing-ground." This gives the rendering "as it were in half a plowing-stint, a yoke of ground," the last two phrases defining each the other, so that the meaning is substantially that of the paraphrase in the [[King]] [[James]] Version. There is here an alleged obscurity and uncertainty in the text, but it is not such as to affect either the translation or the nature of the event. </p> | | <p> '''''ā´kẽr''''' , '''''a´kẽr''''' . [[See]] [[Acco]] . </p> |
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| <ref name="term_354"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/acre+(2) Acre from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | | <ref name="term_348"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/acre+(1) Acre from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> |
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Revision as of 19:58, 11 October 2021
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [1]
ā´kẽr , a´kẽr . See Acco .
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