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Job 31:38 תְּלָמֶ֥יהָ furrows its

if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

Here: 'Its furrows,' the ridges and trenches a plough leaves. This rare, concrete farming word pictures the field's ploughed rows as so many faces in mourning.

Job 39:10 בְּתֶ֣לֶם in a furrow

Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

Psalm 65:10 תְּלָמֶ֣יהָ furrows its

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

Hosea 10:4 תַּלְמֵ֥י [the] furrows of

They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Here: The ridges or furrows cut by the plough, where seed was meant to grow. The weed is growing exactly where the crop should be.

Hosea 12:11 תַּלְמֵ֥י [the] furrows of

Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

Here: 'Furrows of', the plowed ridges of farmland (Ps 65:10; Job 31:38). It sets the sacred altars among the most ordinary farm rubbish.