Threshing-Tongues, Gift Of
THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY REFERENCE CYCLOPEDIA of BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL and ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE Threshing- Tongues, Gift of by James Strong & John McClintock To the Students of the Words, Works and Ways of God: Welcome to the AGES Digital Library. We trust your experience with this and other volumes in the Library fulfills our motto and vision which is our commitment to you: MAKING THE WORDS OF THE WISE AVAILABLE TO ALL — INEXPENSIVELY. AGES Software Rio, WI USA Version 1.0 © 2000 2 Threshing (prop. vWh; but sometimes Ëyræd]hæ, to tread out, ajloa>ein; and occasionally fbij;). The Hebrews made use of three different-processes for separating the grain from the stalk (comp. <232827>Isaiah 28:27 sq.), an operation always carried on in the open air. SEE STRAW. 1. In the earliest period, and even later for small quantities, especially in the former part of the harvest season, and for the frailer kinds of grain, the seed was beaten out with sticks (fbij;, Sept. rJabdi>zein). This was a process applied to other agricultural products (Jerome, ad Isaiah loc. cit.), as well as to field grain (<070611>Judges 6:11;. Ruth 2, 17; <232827>Isaiah 28:27; comp. Columel. 2, 21; Strabo, 4:201). It is a method still in use in the East (Robinson, 2, 650; 3, 233). SEE HARVEST. 2. Usually, however, horned cattle (Mishna, Shebiith, 5, 8, as still in Egypt, Arabia, and Syria), seldom asses or (in modern times) horses (Shaw, p. 124; Buckingham, p. 288), were driven around, usually yoked in pairs or several abreast, and these, by means of their hoofs (<330413>Micah 4:13), cut up and separated the chaff and straw from the grain (<232828>Isaiah 28:28; <245011>Jeremiah 50:11; <281011>Hosea 10:11; comp.
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