guv denotes ploughing or field-working, as seen in the people left to work vineyards and fields.

The attested use places the term among the work of cultivating the land: in 2 Kings 25:12 it describes people left for vineyard and field labor.

1. Cultivating fields · dominant

   In 2 Kings 25:12, the Qal active participle masculine plural identifies people in connection with cultivation work after some of the poorest people of the land are left behind. The APB renders the verse with people left "to work the vineyards and fields," confirming the agricultural setting without isolating a word-for-word equivalent.

   2 Kings 25:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Kings 25:12, the APB presents the agricultural activity as people left "to work the vineyards and fields." It does not isolate a specific English equivalent for the term.