“WHAT IS A COULTER?”

“But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.” (1 Samuel 13:20) 

Dear Reader, here is the word ‘coulter’ … mentioned once in the Bible … and it throws the Bible Correctors into a spasm … being a so called ‘hard’ word that should be replaced by an easier word.

However, having limited knowledge of the English language, these Bible Haters do not realize that a coulter is used in modern day agriculture … from the Latin ‘culter’ meaning ‘knife’ … a cutter.

In the old testament, a coulter was was a knife that went before the plowshare … in order to first break up the earth for easier plowing.

Today, it is a heavy duty, circular shaped, metal cutting wheel, attached on the front of a plow … cutting vertically into the hard ground.

It is a huge money earning business.

A coulter breaks up the hard earth, and made it much easier for the pointed end of a plow to move through the earth … so the share that follows can overturn the earth more efficiently and easily.

Furthermore, the definition of ‘share’ (1 Samuel 13:20) is to separate and distribute …as in the common understanding of the word ‘sharing’. When applied agriculturally, the share implement is attached to the plow after the coulter, and being of triangular shape, distributes or shares the earth to either side, that had been disturbed by the coulter.

Now you would have seen coulters on TV agricultural shows, whereby huge agricultural machines would have two or three rows, or so, of twelve abreast coulters … being heavy duty, circular shaped, metal cutting wheel … attached on the front.

Now these cutting wheels can be lowered or raised depending on the type of ground they are cutting through.

If you didn’t know all this, you could still guess that a coulter would be some sort of agricultural tool … being associated with the words of “share”, “mattock” and axe.

So far from being an obscure ‘archaic’ term, it is a current agricultural term.

Although the coulter’s form has changed from a long blade or knife in front of the plough in the old testament, its function has remained the same.

But the fault of modern education has been to water down English terms and labels to the consistency of mushy baby porridge, so as not to discourage children going to school and having fun.

But as we know, it’s the adults that hate studying, because children love to study … especially the Bible.

It’s the adults that hate the King James Bible.

As we know, it is the Word, Jesus Christ, that has written the words for little children to learn.

They love Mum and Dad speaking to them in words … words are comforting, as the ear is very close to the brain.

Children are born to learn words … God has wired them to words … they have an inbuilt desire from the Creator to learn the words of the Bible … but instead adults force feed them the big words of Harry Potter.

Hello millstones! 

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6)

Sad isn’t it?

Harley Hitchcock
March 2025

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