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ἄρουρα

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Gloss: plowed fields

Transliteration: aroura

Strong’s: G6539

1. tilled or arable land, seed-land, cornland , Lat. arvum, and in plural corn-lands, fields , (Iliad by Homer): then, generally, land, earth , (Iliad by Homer); πατρὶς ἄρουρα father land , (Odyssey by Homer)
2. metaphorically of a woman as bearing children , (Aeschulus Tragicus)
3. a measure of land in Egypt, nearly = the Roman jugerum , (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
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