HARROW (שָׂדַד, H8440). An unknown process of treating soil after plowing. In each of its three occurrences it is related to plowing (Job 39:10; Isa 28:24f.; Hos 10:11). Job 39:10 says that an ox does the harrowing. Isaiah 28:24f. mentions “opening” the ground before harrowing and levelling the face of it. Perhaps harrowing refers to pulling branches behind the plow to cover the seed uniformly. Some suggest that it meant cross plowing or the making of furrows. No tool resembling a harrow is known from Egypt or ancient Pal.