Isaiah 28:24
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

Young's Literal Translation
The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

King James Bible
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Hebrew
Does the plowman
יַחֲרֹ֥שׁ (ya·ḥă·rōš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

plow
הַחֹרֵ֖שׁ (ha·ḥō·rêš)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

for planting
לִזְרֹ֑עַ (liz·rō·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

every
הֲכֹ֣ל (hă·ḵōl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

day?
הַיּ֔וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

Does he continuously loosen
יְפַתַּ֥ח (yə·p̄at·taḥ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

and harrow
וִֽישַׂדֵּ֖ד (wî·śad·dêḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7702: To abrade, harrow a, field

the soil?
אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃ (’aḏ·mā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 127: Ground, land

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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