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fal'-o (damam): Damam is translated only once in the sense of "fallow" (Ex 23:11). The law required that the Israelites allow their ground to lie fallow one year in, seven. the King James Version is (De 14:5) nir, and is translated "fallow" in its more obsolete sense of "tilled ground" in the King James Version (Jer 4:3; Ho 10:12).