אִכָּר ʼikkâr
Meaning
a farmer
In the King James Version: husbandman, ploughman.
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to dig;
Where it is used
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 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.
- Isaiah 61:5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
- Jeremiah 14:4 The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
- Jeremiah 31:24 And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,
- Jeremiah 51:23 With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.
- Joel 1:11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
- Amos 5:16 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.