תֶּלֶם telem

Meaning

a bank or terrace

In the King James Version: furrow, ridge.

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to accumulate;

Where it is used

• Job 31:38 if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
• Job 39:10 Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
• Psalms 65:10 You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
• Hosea 10:4 They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
• Hosea 12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.