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# furrow

«furrow» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A long narrow groove cut into the soil by a plough** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a furrow, furrows); verb (furrow, furrows, furrowed, furrowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long narrow groove cut into the soil by a plough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#m1)

2) A deep line or wrinkle on the skin, especially the forehead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#m2)

3) (verb) To make lines on your forehead by frowning: «He furrowed his brow.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#m3)

4) (verb) To plough a field into grooves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#m4)

5) A furrow can also be any long, shallow groove in a surface, such as the groove along an animal's horn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means a groove in a ploughed field. In the primary lessons: In farming and history lessons fields are ploughed into straight furrows for planting seeds. In stories, a furrowed brow shows a character is worried or thinking hard. Proverb: «to plough a lonely furrow» means to work alone without help.

### examples

- Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? (Writings JOB.39.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x1)
- The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows. (Writings PSA.129.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x2)
- If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together; (Writings JOB.31.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x3)
- The farmer ploughed long straight furrows across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x4)
- Seeds were dropped into the furrows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x5)
- Gulls followed the plough to eat worms from the furrows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x6)
- She furrowed her brow over the hard sum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x7)
- Deep furrows lined the old man's face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x8)
- The Mole saw the furrows of the brown fields from the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x9)
- It has one horn about a cubit long which is solid, but has a furrow from the base to the tip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x10)

### note

Rhymes with «borrow». Regular verb: furrowed. Do not confuse with «burrow» (an animal's hole) or «ferret».

### In the corpora

- [They speak words, they swear falsely, they make covenants; thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.141/)
- [Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1053/)
- [The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2412/)
- [If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.819/)
- [Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1066/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «furrow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.