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acre

Meaning of “acre”

A measure or extent of land approximated by what a yoke of oxen could plow.

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First occurrence: 1 Samuel 14:14

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1 Samuel 14:14
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 14:14 · retained source text

And that first slaughter which Ionathan and his armour-bearer made, was about twentie men, within as it were an halfe acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

1611 marginal noteOr, halfe a furrow of an acre of land.

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