From an unused root meaning to accumulate; a bank or terrace -- furrow, ridge.
Englishman's Concordance
1) furrow Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root meaning to accumulate Same Word by TWOT Number: 2515a
Brown-Driver-Briggs
תֶּ֫לֶםnoun masculineJob 31:38furrow; — absolute ׳תJob 39:10 (other conjectures Du PerlesAnal. 53); plural construct תַּלְמֵי שָׂדָ֑יHosea 10:4; Hosea 12:12; suffix תְּלָמֶיהָJob 31:38; Psalm 65:11. — On ploughing in Palestine see HoggEncy. Bib. AGRICULTURE VogelstLandwirthsch. 25 ff., on depth of furrow (not more than 8-10 centimeters) Idib.36 AnderlindZPV ix. 25, 29; also Benz Archaeology under the word — תִּלָּם see תֵּל above
Job 31:38 HEB:תִזְעָ֑ק וְ֝יַ֗חַד תְּלָמֶ֥יהָ יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃ NAS: out against me, And its furrows weep KJV: cry against me, or that the furrows likewise INT: cries together furrows weep
Job 39:10 HEB:הֲֽתִקְשָׁר־ רֵ֭ים בְּתֶ֣לֶם עֲבֹת֑וֹ אִם־ NAS: the wild ox in a furrow with ropes, KJV: with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow INT: bind the wild A furrow ropes Or
Psalm 65:10 HEB: תְּלָמֶ֣יהָ רַ֭וֵּה נַחֵ֣ת NAS: You water its furrows abundantly, KJV: Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: INT:furrows water settle
Hosea 10:4 HEB:מִשְׁפָּ֔ט עַ֖ל תַּלְמֵ֥י שָׂדָֽי׃ NAS: like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. KJV: as hemlock in the furrows of the field. INT: and judgment in the furrows of the field
Hosea 12:11 HEB:כְּגַלִּ֔ים עַ֖ל תַּלְמֵ֥י שָׂדָֽי׃ NAS: Beside the furrows of the field. KJV: [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields. INT: the stone Beside the furrows of the fields
