KJV dictionary & concordance
The operation, practice or art of preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground free from weeds which might impede the growth of crops.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Chronicles 27:26
Complete exact-word concordance
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
And ouer them that did the worke of the field, for tillage of the ground, was Ezri the sonne of Chelub.
And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all maner of trees, of wine and of oile, vnto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground vnto the Leuites, that the same Leuites might haue the tithes, in all the cities of our tillage.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Much food is in the tillage of the poore: but there is that is destroyed for want of iudgement.
1611 marginal noteChap. 12.11.
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Historical English dictionary sources
The operation, practice or art of preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground free from weeds which might impede the growth of crops.
