אִכָּר
ik.kar
“farmer”
Definition
a farmer
from an unused root meaning to dig;
- plowman, husbandman, farmer 1a) working the land, yet not owning any of it
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
אִכָּר appears 7 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:“There will be wailing in all the public squaresand cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets.The farmer will be summoned to mourn,and the mourners to wail.
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
The ground is crackedbecause no rain has fallen on the land.The farmers are ashamed;they cover their heads.
And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,
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