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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
plough .
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Examples
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Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her good fruits:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her good fruits:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision
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Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her good fruits:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her good fruits:
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For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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To these undertakings these great lords of the world have been stirred up, rather by the desire of fame, which plougheth up the air and soweth in the wind, than by the affection of bearing rule, which draweth after it so much vexation and so many cares.
A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922
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He saith: Verily she is a cow unyoked; she plougheth not the soil nor watereth the tilth; whole and without mark.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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"He that plougheth," spiritually, is the first planter of a church in a place (compare 1Co 3: 6, 9); "he that thresheth," the minister who tends a church already planted.
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