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Strong's #6776: tsemed (pronounced tseh'-med)

a yoke or team (i.e. pair); hence, an acre (i.e. day's task for a yoke of cattle to plough):--acre, couple, X together, two (donkeys), yoke (of oxen).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

tsemed

1) couple, pair, team, yoke

1a) couple, pair, span (usually of animals)

1b) acre

1b1) the amount of land a span of oxen could plow in one day

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: a yoke or team (i.e. pair)



Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Judges 19:3: "friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's"
Judges 19:10: "Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine"
1 Samuel 11:7: "And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel"
1 Samuel 14:14: "men, within as it were a half acre of land, which a yoke"
2 Samuel 16:1: "Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon"
1 Kings 19:19: "of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he"
1 Kings 19:21: "from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled"
2 Kings 5:17: "then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for"
2 Kings 9:25: "and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD"
Job 1:3: "camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses,"
Job 42:12: "sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand"
Isaiah 5:10: "Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed"
Isaiah 21:7: "And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels;"
Isaiah 21:9: "cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon"
Jeremiah 51:23: "and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers."









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