Isaiah 28:24
Strong's Lexicon
Does the plowman
יַחֲרֹ֥שׁ (ya·ḥă·rōš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2790: 1) to cut in, plough, engrave, devise 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut in, engrave 1a2) to plough 1a3) to devise 1b) (Niphal) to be ploughed 1c) (Hiphil) to plot evil 2) to be silent, be dumb, be speechless, be deaf 2a) (Qal) 2a1) to be silent 2a2) to be deaf 2b) (Hiphil) 2b1) to be silent, keep quiet 2b2) to make silent 2b3) to be deaf, show deafness 2c) (Hithpael) to remain silent

plow
הַחֹרֵ֖שׁ (ha·ḥō·rêš)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2790: 1) to cut in, plough, engrave, devise 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut in, engrave 1a2) to plough 1a3) to devise 1b) (Niphal) to be ploughed 1c) (Hiphil) to plot evil 2) to be silent, be dumb, be speechless, be deaf 2a) (Qal) 2a1) to be silent 2a2) to be deaf 2b) (Hiphil) 2b1) to be silent, keep quiet 2b2) to make silent 2b3) to be deaf, show deafness 2c) (Hithpael) to remain silent

for planting
לִזְרֹ֑עַ (liz·rō·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 2232: 1) to sow, scatter seed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sow 1a2) producing, yielding seed 1b)(Niphal) 1b1) to be sown 1b2) to become pregnant, be made pregnant 1c) (Pual) to be sown 1d) (Hiphil) to produce seed, yield seed

every
הֲכֹ֣ל (hă·ḵōl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything

day ?
הַיּ֔וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

Does he continuously loosen
יְפַתַּ֥ח (yə·p̄at·taḥ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6605: 1) to open 1a) (Qal) to open 1b) (Niphal) to be opened, be let loose, be thrown open 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to free 1c2) to loosen 1c3) to open, open oneself 1d) (Hithpael) to loose oneself 2) to carve, engrave 2a) (Piel) to engrave 2b) (Pual) to be engraved

and harrow
וִֽישַׂדֵּ֖ד (wî·śad·dêḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7702: 1) (Piel) to harrow

the soil ?
אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃ (’aḏ·mā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 127: 1) ground, land 1a) ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance) 1b) piece of ground, a specific plot of land 1c) earth substance (for building or constructing) 1d) ground as earth's visible surface 1e) land, territory, country 1f) whole inhabited earth 1g) city in Naphtali

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

Young's Literal Translation
The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed? Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

New American Standard Bible
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he [continually] turn and harrow the ground?

King James Bible
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Parallel Verses
New International Version
When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?

New Living Translation
Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting?

English Standard Version
Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

New American Standard Bible
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

King James Bible
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed? Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

International Standard Version
Does he who plows for sowing plow all the time? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing his field?

NET Bible
Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

American Standard Version
Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?

English Revised Version
Doth the plowman plow continually to sow? doth he continually open and break the clods of his ground?

Young's Literal Translation
The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
















Cross References
Isaiah 28:23
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Isaiah 28:25
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Isaiah 28:21
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

Isaiah 28:26
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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