Bible Encyclopedia: Farmed

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From John Yeardley's Conversion to the Commencement of his Public ...
... His parents, Joel and Frances Yeardley, farmed some land, chiefly pasture, and his
mother is said to have been famous for her cream-cheeses, which she carried ...
/.../chapter i from john yeardleys.htm

The Home and the Boy
... prerogatives of the father and mother, so far as they pertain to the physical, social,
mental and moral development of boyhood, have been farmed out to other ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/i the home and the.htm

Goes to Housekeeping. Discussions with Mr. Maddox. Attends Meeting ...
... disturbed in regard to the right way of the Lord. I farmed for three years
after marriage. The last year, we lived on the railroad just ...
/.../chapter vi goes to housekeeping.htm

The Friend of Sinners
... Beside, these publicans did not merely gather the taxes, as they do in free England;
they farmed them, compounded for them with the Roman emperor; that is ...
/.../kingsley/the good news of god/sermon xxxiii the friend of.htm

Spiritual Farming. --No. 1 Draining.
... 1. DRAINING. If the men who farmed England in the olden time could return, few
things would surprise them more than the condition of the land. ...
/.../champness/broken bread/i spiritual farming no 1 draining.htm

"But they are Gods to Us," You Say. ...
... under the registration of the quæstor. Deity is struck off and farmed
out to the highest bidder. But indeed lands burdened with ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/apology/chapter xiii but they are.htm

Reformation.
... granted to Albert, elector of Mentz and archbishop of Magdeburg, the benefit of
the indulgences of Saxony, and the neighboring parts, and farmed out those of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/reformation.htm

How Cleopatra, when She had Gotten from Antony Some Parts of Judea ...
... expedition to Armenia as far as Euphrates, she returned back, and came to Apamia
and Damascus, and passed on to Judea, where Herod met her, and farmed of her ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 4 how cleopatra when.htm

Introduction.
... 8. "What," answer they, "is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?"
To which he replied: "If ye had not farmed with my heifer, you would not ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/introduction 2.htm

The Historical Situation
... 5. There were two sorts of Roman taxes in Judea: direct, which were collected by
salaried officials; and customs, which were farmed out to the highest bidder. ...
/.../rhees/the life of jesus of nazareth/i the historical situation.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(imp. & p. p.) of Farm.

Thesaurus

Farmed (4 Occurrences)
...Farmed (4 Occurrences). ... Ezekiel 36:34 And the land which was waste will be farmed,
in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by. (BBE). ...
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Farm (9 Occurrences)
... the owner. 5. (a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for
the collection of the revenues of government. 6. (a. & ...
/f/farm.htm - 11k

Farmer (17 Occurrences)

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Publican (7 Occurrences)
... One who farmed the taxes (eg, Zacchaeus, Luke 19:2) to be levied from a town or
district, and thus undertook to pay to the supreme government a certain amount. ...
/p/publican.htm - 9k

Procurator
... Under the Republic the influence of the equestrian class was chiefly exerted in
the financial transactions of the companies which farmed the variable revenues. ...
/p/procurator.htm - 13k

Custom (51 Occurrences)
... See Ryle, Cambridge Bible, Ezra-Nehemiah, in the place cited Telos in New Testament
and Maccabees is an indirect tax farmed out to the publicans. ...
/c/custom.htm - 28k

Assessor
... The kings of Judah, it would seem, made free use of the temple treasures. (3) Later
the Roman government "farmed out" the taxes of the provinces. ...
/a/assessor.htm - 9k

Matthew (5 Occurrences)
... Galilee, or possibly a subordinate officer, belonging to the class called portitores,
serving under the publicani, or superior officials who farmed the Roman ...
/m/matthew.htm - 38k

Jehoiakim (37 Occurrences)
... Oriental. He raised the immense fine that Necoh imposed upon him by a direct
taxation, which he farmed out to unscrupulous officials. ...
/j/jehoiakim.htm - 33k

Bible Concordance

Farmed (4 Occurrences)

Hebrews 6:7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 27:26 Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers;
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 36:34 And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 48:19 It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Farmed

Related Terms

Farm (9 Occurrences)

Farmer (17 Occurrences)

Publican (7 Occurrences)

Procurator

Custom (51 Occurrences)

Assessor