a.dar refers to hoeing or cultivating ground, including land left untended or formerly worked with a hoe.

The attested use concerns hoeing or cultivating land: Isaiah 5:6 depicts land that will not receive such care, while Isaiah 7:25 refers to hills formerly cultivated with a hoe.

1. Hoeing or cultivating land · dominant

   In Isaiah 5:6, the Niphal imperfect singular occurs in the announcement that the land will not be pruned or hoed; the APB renders the clause “it will not be pruned and it will not be hoed.” In Isaiah 7:25, the Niphal imperfect plural occurs with hills formerly cultivated with the hoe; the APB renders “all the hills that used to be cultivated with the hoe.”

   Isaiah 5:6Isaiah 7:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term explicitly as “hoed” in Isaiah 5:6 and as land “cultivated with the hoe” in Isaiah 7:25. These renderings confirm the agricultural setting without assigning each English word mechanically to the Hebrew form.