jethro

English - Turkish

Definition of jethro in English Turkish dictionary: Şuayb peygamber. Hz. Şuayb; musa'nın üvey babası

English - English

Definition of jethro in English English dictionary: A male given name of biblical origin; The father-in-law of Moses
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.; A male given name of Biblical derivation; {i} father-in-law of Moses and father of Zipporah (Bible); male first name; O T; Father of Zipporah and father-in-law of Moses, also called Reuel; A shepherd and priest of the Kenites, a Midianite tribe of coppersmiths, with whom Moses took refuge during his flight from Egypt and whose daughter Zipporah he married (Exod 2: 15-22; 18: 1-12) Moses apparently identified Jethro's god, Yahweh, with El Shaddai, god of Israel's ancestors (Exod 3; 6; 18)
Jethro Tull: a British farmer and inventor, who developed new methods of farming and invented a machine for putting seeds in the ground (1674-1741). born 1674, Basildon, Berkshire, Eng. died Feb. 21, 1741, Prosperous Farm, near Hungerford, Berkshire British agronomist and inventor. He was educated at Oxford. Around 1701 he perfected a horse-drawn seed drill that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later a horse-drawn hoe. He stressed the use of manure and the importance of breaking up the soil into small particles. Tull's methods, though initially attacked, were eventually adopted by many large landowners, and they helped form the basis of modern agriculture

jethro

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Jeth·ro

cethrō

/ˈʤeᴛʜrō/ /ˈʤɛθroʊ/

() From Hebrew יִתְרוֹ (yitró).

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