Maʻănâh — H4618

Definition

feminine noun

a furrow

1. ploughing ground, place for task

Usually translated as

acre, furrow

Origin

from H6031, in the sense of depression or tilling

• Derived from ʻânâh (H6031)

Occurrences

Maʻănâh occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (1), Psalms (1)

• 1 Samuel 14:14 — And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre (מַעֲנָ֖ה) of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
• Psalms 129:3 — The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows (לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם).