Husbandry Husbandman
Husbandry Husbandman [1]
Husbandman, Husbandry . In Ev [Note: English Version.] the former is, in most cases, synonymous with ‘a tiller of the ground,’ which Rv [Note: Revised Version.] has substituted for it in Zechariah 13:5 in modern English, a farmer. The first farmer mentioned in Ot, therefore, is not Noah the ‘husbandman’ ( Genesis 9:20 ), but Cain the ‘tiller of the ground’ ( Genesis 4:2 ). In John 15:1 , however, the former has the more limited sense of vinedresser: ‘I am the true vine and my Father is the vinedresser’ (Av [Note: Authorized Version.] and Rv [Note: Revised Version.] ‘husbandman’). So, too, in the parable of the Vineyard ( Matthew 21:33 ff.).
‘Husbandry,’ in the same way, is tillage, farming. Thus of king Uzziah it is said that ‘he loved husbandry’ (lit. ‘the land’ in the modern sense, 2 Chronicles 26:10 ), that is, as the context shows, he loved and fostered agriculture, including viticulture. In 1 Corinthians 3:9 ‘husbandry’ is used by metonymy of the land tilled (cf. RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ): ‘ye are God’s field’ (Weymouth, The Nt in Modern Speech ).
