Easton's Bible Dictionary
The expression, "Break up your fallow ground" (
Hosea 10:12;
Jeremiah 4:3) means, "Do not sow your seed among thorns", i.e., break off all your evil habits; clear your hearts of weeds, in order that they may be prepared for the seed of righteousness. Land was allowed to lie fallow that it might become more fruitful; but when in this condition, it soon became overgrown with thorns and weeds. The cultivator of the soil was careful to "break up" his fallow ground, i.e., to clear the field of weeds, before sowing seed in it. So says the prophet, "Break off your evil ways, repent of your sins, cease to do evil, and then the good seed of the word will have room to grow and bear fruit."
Strong's Hebrew
5215b. nir -- tillable, untilled, or fallow groundnir or nir. 5215a, 5215b. nir or nir. 5216 . tillable, untilled, or
fallow ground. Transliteration: nir or nir Short Definition: ground.
... /hebrew/5215b.htm - 5k 5215. niyr -- a lamp
... fallow ground, plowing, tillage Or nir {neer}; from niyr; properly, plowing, ie
(concretely) freshly plowed land -- fallow ground, plowing, tillage. ...
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Library
True Righteousness is Obtained by Christ.
... not hear you. Break up your fallow ground,' Jeremiah has cried to the people,
and sow not among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to ...
/.../chapter xxviii true righteousness is obtained.htm
How to Promote a Revival.
... HOW TO PROMOTE A REVIVAL. Text."Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek
the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you."Hosea 10:12. ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture iii how to promote.htm
Charity.
... of men"it grows not on the corrupt soil of human nature; it springs only where the
ploughshare of true repentance has broken up the fallow ground of the heart ...
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The Answer Concerning the Threefold Condition of Souls.
... giving word in ground that is barren and unfruitful and choked by noxious thorns;
but that they should scorn this, and rather cultivate fallow ground, ie, that ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xix the answer concerning.htm
An Exhortation to the People Respecting Fortitude and Patience...
... This the Prophet signified when he spoke thus, "Break up your fallow ground, and
sow not among thorns." [1191] Therefore, as when he who has set the plough on ...
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His Earliest Oracles. (ii. 2-iv. 4. )
... Jerusalem: Fallow up your fallow-ground,(195) And sow not on thorns! To ...
hearts. Fallow up the fallow-ground, Sow not on thorns! To ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/1 his earliest oracles ii.htm
Spiritual Farming. --No. 3 Cultivation.
... but we feel we have not pressed upon them with the force it deserves, the necessity
of what the Bible calls "breaking up the fallow ground." What the plough ...
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The Sower. Mt 13:03
... 8,6,8,6. The sower. Mt 13:3. Ye sons of earth prepare the plow,. Break up your fallow
ground! The Sower is gone forth to sow,. And scatter blessings round. ...
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Effectual Calling
... without Christ. Then having ploughed up the fallow ground of their hearts
by humiliation, He sows the seed of consolation. He presents ...
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Introduction
... in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant they fail to
interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown on fallow ground. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/introduction.htm
Thesaurus
Fallowground... The expression, "Break up your
fallowground" (Hosea 10:12; Jeremiah 4:3) means,
"Do not sow your seed among thorns", ie, break off all your evil habits; clear
.../f/fallowground.htm - 7kFallow-ground
Fallow-ground. Fallowground, Fallow-ground. Falls . Easton's Bible Dictionary ...
Fallowground, Fallow-ground. Falls . Reference Bible.
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Fallow (5 Occurrences)
... (See NAS RSV). Jeremiah 4:3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
Break up your fallowground, and don't sow among thorns. ...
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Sow (61 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Jeremiah 4:3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
Break up your fallowground, and don't sow among thorns. ...
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Grounded (5 Occurrences)
... as representing the heart in relation to its reception of words of truth and
righteousness (Jeremiah 4:3 Hosea 10:12, "Break up your fallowground"); to the ...
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Fallow-deer (2 Occurrences)
Fallow-deer. Fallowdeer, Fallow-deer. Fallowground . Easton's Bible Dictionary ...
(DBY WBS YLT). Fallowdeer, Fallow-deer. Fallowground . Reference Bible.
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Rains (16 Occurrences)
... kindness. Break up your fallowground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until
he comes and rains righteousness on you. (WEB). Joel ...
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Showers (20 Occurrences)
... kindness. Break up your fallowground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until
he comes and rains righteousness on you. (See NIV). Joel ...
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Unfailing (29 Occurrences)
... to kindness. Break up your fallowground; for it is time to seek Yahweh,
until he comes and rains righteousness on you. (See NIV). ...
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Resources
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