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== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_63759" /> == | == 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" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_185715" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) | <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" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_63276" /> == | ||
<p> (prop. עִבִוֹדָה, '' | <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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