Bible dictionaries

Earing

What Bible dictionaries say about “Earing”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Earing - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

An Old English word (from the Latin aro, I plough), meaning "ploughing." It is used in the Authorized Version in Gen. 45:6; Ex. 34:21; 1 Sam. 8:12; Deut. 21:4; Isa. 30:24; but the Revised Version has rendered the original in these places by the ordinary word to plough or till.

Earing - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

E'ARING, n. In seamen's language, a small rope employed to fasten the upper corner of a sail to its yard.

E'ARING, n. A plowing of land. Gen 44.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

er'-ing (harish):

The Hebrew word is twice translated "earing" in the King James Version (Ge 45:6; Ex 34:21). The Revised Version (British and American) rendering is "plowing": "There shall be neither plowing nor harvest."

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(Genesis 45:6; Exodus 34:21) Derived from the Latin arare , to plough; hence it means ploughing.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith