TILL, prep or adv.
1. To the time or time of. I did not See The man till the last time he came; I waited for him till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
Till now, to the present time. I never heard of the fact ill now.
Till then, to that time. I never heard of the fact till then.
2. It is used before verbs and sentences in a like sense, denoting to the time specified in the sentence or clause following. I will wait till you arrive.
He said to them, occupy till I come. Luke 19.
Certain Jews--bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Acts 23.
Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God.
[Note.--In this use, till is not a conjunction; it does not connect sentences like and, or like or. It neither denotes union nor separation, nor an alternative. It has always the same office, except that is precedes a single word or a single sentence; the time to which it refers being in one case expressed by a single word, as now, or the, or time, with this, or that, _c.,and in the other by a verb with its adjuncts; as, occupy till I come. In the latter use, till is a preposition preceding a sentence, like against, in the phrase, against I come.]
TILL, v.t.
1. To labor; to cultivate; to plow and prepare for See d, and to dress crops. This word includes not only plowing but harrowing, and whatever is done to prepare ground for a crop, and to keep it free from weeds.
The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen 3.
2. In the most general sense, to till may include every species of husbandry, and this may be its sense in Scripture.
