What Does “Husbandman” Mean in the Bible?
Office or title
Someone who works the land to plant it: a farmer. To “till the ground” is to plow it and grow crops.
A detail
- “Hewn” stone or metal: worked to give it shape. “Unhewn stones” are stones just as they come.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 4:2; Genesis 9:20
What the Bible says
Genesis 4:2
And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.
Genesis 9:20
And Noe, a husbandman, began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “labrador” and “labrar”