Threshing

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

See AGRICULTURE.

ISBE

thresh'-ing (dush; aloao): Dush means literally, "to trample out." In Jer 51:33 , darakh, is used of threshing. Fitches and cummin were beaten off with a rod. The distinction between beating and threshing is made in Isa 28:27 . Gideon, in order to avoid being seen by the Midianites, beat out his wheat in a wine press instead of threshing it on the threshing-floor ( Jud 6:11 ). For a general description of the threshing operations see AGRICULTURE . Figurative: "Thou shalt thresh the mountains," i.e. thou wilt overcome great difficulties ( Isa 41:15 ). Babylon's destruction was foretold poetically in the language of the threshing-floor ( Isa 21:10 ; Jer 51:33 ; Da 2:35 ); Zion's foes would be gathered as sheaves on the threshing-floor ( Mic 4:12 , 13 ; compare 2Ki 13:7 ; Am 1:3 ; Hab 3:12 ); threshing unto the vintage, i.e. throughout the summer, indicated an extra abundant yield ( Le 26:5 ). James A. Patch

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

[Agriculture]