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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The World English Bible translates the passage as: His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing ...
A grain flail. Through much of the important history of agriculture, threshing was time-consuming and usually laborious, with a bushel of wheat taking about an hour. [2] In the late 18th century, before threshing was mechanized, [3] about one-quarter of agricultural labor was devoted to it.
In general, the term "threshing board" is used to refer to all the different variants of this primitive implement. Technically, we should distinguish at least the two main types of threshing boards: the "threshing sledge," which is the subject of this article, and the "threshing cart." The "threshing sledge" is the most common type.
A threshing floor is of two main types: 1) a specially flattened outdoor surface, usually circular and paved, [2] or 2) inside a building with a smooth floor of earth, stone or wood where a farmer would thresh the grain harvest and then winnow it. Animal and steam powered threshing machines from the nineteenth century onward made threshing ...
Threshing stone near Goessel, Kansas at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church. (2010) A threshing stone is a roller-like tool used for the threshing of wheat.Similar to the use of threshing boards, the stone was pulled by horses over a circular pile of harvested wheat on a hardened dirt surface (threshing floor), and the rolling stone knocked the grain from the head of wheat.
Commingling America’s founding documents and the Pledge of Allegiance with the Bible not only trivializes Holy Writ but confirms people’s worst fears about “Christian nationalism.” Not to ...
The bizarre video concludes with “God” anointing Mr Trump as the “shepherd” to lead his flock and pledging that his man (assuming he can secure the Republican nomination and beat Joe Biden ...
The Bible identified Araunah as a Jebusite. Some biblical scholars believe that he may have simply been the Jebusite king of Jerusalem at the time. The word araunah is not a personal name but a title meaning "the lord" in Hurrian and other near eastern languages. [8] In 2 Samuel 24:23, Araunah is referred to as a king: "... Araunah the king ...