1 Samuel 14:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

acre. Hebrew. furrow, or. furrow's length. The Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6) is supplied, but the words "in. day" might be added for completeness at end of verse. This is the standard measure throughout the Turkish empire, called. deunum. 40 arshuns.

1 Samuel 14:14

14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearerd made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.