Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Left unplanted after plowing; uncultivated; resting; as, fallow farmland. 2. (a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. 3. (n.) Plowed land. 4. (n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. 5. (n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. 6. (n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FALLOW fal'-o (damam): Damam is translated only once in the sense of "fallow" (Exodus 23:11). The law required that the Israelites allow their ground to lie fallow one year in, seven. the King James Version is (Deuteronomy 14:5) nir, and is translated "fallow" in its more obsolete sense of "tilled ground" in the King James Version (Jeremiah 4:3 Hosea 10:12).

Multi-Version Concordance Fallow (5 Occurrences) Exodus 23:11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV) Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. (KJV WBS YLT) Proverbs 13:23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing. (See NAS RSV) Jeremiah 4:3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV) Hosea 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)