Earing

This word, which occurs in the Authorized Version (Gen 45:6), is very often supposed to mean ’collecting the ears of corn,’ which would confound it with harvest, from which it is distinguished in this very passage. But the word is radically the same with harrow, and denotes plowing, from the Anglo-Saxon erian, ’to plow.’

An old agricultural term for ploughing. Thus, in Isa 30:24, it is said, "The oxen also, and the young asses which ear," that is, "plough, the ground." So also in Gen 45:6 Exo 34:21 Deu 21:4 1Sa 8:12 .\par

Earing. Gen 45:6; Exo 34:21 Derived from the Latin, arare, to plough; hence, it means ploughing.

Old English for "plowing". "Neither earing, nor harvest" (Gen 45:6; Exo 34:21; Deu 21:4; Isa 30:24).

Earing, Earing-time. Gen 45:6; Exo 34:21. R. V., "plowing." Earing is an old English word for plowing. The same word is used. Psa 129:3, and is translated plowed. What we call arable land is sometimes called "earable" land; R. V., "plowed." Deu 21:4; 1Sa 8:12; and Isa 30:24, where the R. V. reads "till."

EARING.—Gen 45:6, ‘There shall be neither earing nor harvest.’ ‘Earing’ is the old expression for ‘ploughing.’ The verb ‘to ear’ (connected with Lat. arare) also occurs, as Deu 21:4 ‘a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown.’

ēr´ing (חרישׁ, ḥārı̄sh): The Hebrew word is twice translated “earing” in the King James Version (Gen 45:6; Exo 34:21). The Revised Version (British and American) rendering is “plowing”: “There shall be neither plowing nor harvest.” See also Deu 21:4; 1Sa 8:12; Isa 30:24.