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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
10
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. (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
.
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