Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
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Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
Read in context →But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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zâraʻ · zaw-rah'
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
Strong's KJV usage: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Strong's first: Genesis 47:23Strong's last: Zechariah 10:9
Open full H2232 profile →speírō · spi'-ro
to scatter, i.e. sow (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sow(- er), receive seed.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:26Strong's last: Luke 19:22
Open full G4687 profile →hŷs · hoos
a hog ("swine")
Strong's KJV usage: :--sow.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:22Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:22
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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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SOW, noun
1. The female of the hog kind or of swine.
2. An oblong piece of lead.
3. An insect; a milleped.
SOW'-BREAD, noun A plant of the genus Cyclamen.
SOW'-BUG, noun An insect; a milleped.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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