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Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This
word, as a
measure
of land, occurs twice in
the
Authorized version. In
1 Sam. 14:14,
14
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow. (1 Samuel 14:14)
the word
is
maanah
, “a furrow,” reading in the margin “half a furrow of an
acre
.” In
Isaiah 5:10
10
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. (Isaiah 5:10)
it is
tsemed
, “a pair, or
yoke
.” The “acre” was as much as a yoke of
oxen
would plow in a
day
. The
Latin
etymology is similar: thus
jugum
, a yoke;
jugerum
, an acre. The Roman acre contained 28,800 square feet (being 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth), which is less than two-thirds of an English acre, which contains 43,560 square feet. “The
Egyptian
land measure,” says Wilkinson, “was the
aroura
, or
antra
, a square of 100 cubits, covering an area of 10,000 cubits It contained 29,184 square English feet (the
cubit
being full 20.5 inches) and was
little
more than
three
quarters of an English acre.”
What
the Jewish acre exactly contained we
have
no means of ascertaining: it is not included in the usual lists of
weights and
measures
as a definite measure of land. The
passage
in Isaiah 5:10: “
ten
acres of
vineyard
shall
yield
one
bath
” clearly refers to a
time
of
great
dearth which
Jehovah
would send upon
Israel
in
judgment
.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
4618
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
ma`anah
Phonic:
mah-an-aw’
Meaning:
from
6031
, in the sense of depression or tilling; a furrow
KJV Usage:
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