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   -in 48 instances, "The Almighty"((https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7706.htm)) (often pronounced "Shaddai", and presumed to refer to [[Ihoh]])
-Despite the seemingly wide variety of meanings, there is likely some sensible etymology at work here. In the first case, the act of ploughing a field causes the level ground to take on a hilly shape, albeit at a very small scale. It is these small hills and troughs that enable the farmer to plant seeds in the loosened ground. The second case is most likely a euphemism for sex. A mistress is a woman chosen primarily "to be ploughed" in a figurative sense, but one that lives on in modern slang, and in which one's "seed may be planted". The third a fourth cases likely stem from the violent nature of ploughing, as it literally rips apart the soil, but may also be influenced by a metaphorical treatment of the third case, essentially a blend of crude parlance equivalent to the modern essence "to be fucked".
+Despite the seemingly wide variety of meanings, there is likely some sensible etymology at work here. In the first case, the act of ploughing a field causes the level ground to take on a hilly shape, albeit at a very small scale. It is these small hills and troughs that enable the farmer to plant seeds in the loosened ground. The second case is most likely a euphemism for sex. A mistress is a woman chosen primarily "to be ploughed" in a figurative sense, but one that lives on in modern slang, and in which one's "seed may be planted".
+The third and fourth cases likely stem from the violent nature of ploughing, as it literally rips apart the soil, but may also be influenced by a metaphorical treatment of the third case, essentially a blend of crude parlance equivalent to the modern essence "to be fucked". FIXME it might make sense to simply use "plough" with a note that it is used figuratively.
 The fifth case seems to stem from the 3rd/4th. Shaddai is the name given to one so powerful as to be able to easily wreak havoc; a concept which eventually lead to the idea of the omnipresence of the monotheistic "God".