Isa 41:15 you shall thresh mountains and grind them down, and hills
Jer 51:33 is like a threshing floor
Amo 1:3 they threshed Gilead with iron threshing
Mic 4:13 arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for
Hab 3:12 in fury you threshed the nations
1Ti 5:18 you shall not muzzle the ox that threshes
Act of separating the grain from the spike. When it came to small quantities, what was done was to hit the ears with a stick. The same method was used for dill and cumin (Isa 28:27). For large quantities, a piece of wood about 70 cm wide and 120 cm long was taken, to which basalt stones were embedded in the lower part. Two oxen dragged this piece over the ears spread on the threshing floor and thus the grain was separated (Isa 28:24-28). The ox that was engaged in this work could not be muzzled (Deu 25:4). The passage of a threshing machine over the ears of corn, breaking it into pieces, is compared to the passage of God’s judgment or to the results of an invasion. Thus, Isaiah calls his people † œthreshed and winnowed† (Isa 21:10). God was going to you. † œfrom the river Euphrates to the torrent of Egypt †, gathering his people (Isa 27:12). The fourth beast seen by Daniel corresponded to “a fourth kingdom on earth…will thresh and break” (Dan 7:23). But the day would come when Zion would be told: “Arise and thresh … for I will make your horn like iron and your nails bronze, and you will crush many peoples” (Mic 4:13).
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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vet, This operation was carried out by oxen treading on the ears of corn, as can be seen from the provision that prohibits muzzling the threshing ox (Dt. 25:4). There were also threshing instruments, with which the grain was beaten. Threshing was also carried out by dragging a kind of toothed threshing machine with the driver on top of the grain, with which the straw was also crushed (2 Sam. 24:22; Is. 41:15, etc.). The incident of Gideon beating the wheat in the winepress shows how far the Midianites had oppressed the Israelites, who were forced to the most painful extremes to carve out a miserable subsistence under the foreign yoke (Judg. 6:11).
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Action and effect of shredding the spikes of a grass, to then “fan” the straw, separate the grain and collect it to keep it in the barn and use it for life.
Threshing is symbolically presented as an effective and life-conditioning task.
Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006
Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy
Crush the harvest and make the grain loosen from the ears. If the gleaners had little to thresh, if the grain was small in size, such as cumin, or if the threshing was done in secret during dangerous times, a stick or flail (sheller) was used to pound the grain by hand, either in the ground or in a winery. (Jg 6:11; Ruth 2:17; Isa 28:27)
However, threshing was normally carried out on the threshing floor. This used to be located in a higher place, exposed to the wind, and consisted of a flat circular area, almost 15 m. in diameter, made of stone or very tight earth. When the threshing floors were not private, they were grouped near a village for communal use. Sheaves of barley or wheat, which were the main cereals of Palestine, were spread out on the ground (today sheaves are spread to a thickness of 30 to 46 cm.). Bulls or other animals were made to pass over it in circles so that the straw would open up and separate the grain from the chaff. The animals were not muzzled while they stepped on the grain. (De 25:4; Ho 10:11; 1Co 9:9, 10)
Animal-drawn threshing instruments sped up the work and went deeper than the hooves of the animals themselves. (Isa 41:15; Am 1:3) The models used in more modern times consist either of flat, heavy, wide platforms with stone or iron teeth on their bottoms, or of frames pulled by heavy cylindrical rollers fitted with of blades to cut and open the spikes. By using devices such as the platform or the rollers, a part of the era was covered with each turn and the weight of the driver on top improved performance. (Compare Isa 28:28.)
Once the grain had been completely threshed, it was winnowed. (See TWIN.)
Since the threshing floors were an open, level space, they were often used for other purposes. The mourning rites for Jacob were held in the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan. (Ge 50:10, 11) At Jehovah’s command, David purchased the threshing floor from Araunah (Ornan), built an altar there, and sacrificed to Jehovah. (2Sa 24:16-25; 1Ch 21:15-28) This threshing floor later became the site of Solomon’s temple. (2Ch 3:1) When Jehoshaphat and Ahab consulted as to whether they should make war against Syria, their thrones were placed on a threshing floor at the entrance to the gate of Samaria. (1Ki 22:10.)
figurative use. In a figurative sense, the treatment given to ears of grain in a threshing floor is a very apt symbol of how Jehovah’s enemies will be beaten to pieces. (Isa 41:15; Jer 51:33; Mic 4:12, 13; Hab 3:12) Threshing has also been used as an example of the crushing treatment that some men give to others. (2Ki 13:7) On the other hand, the separation of the wheat and the chaff may illustrate the separation that Jehovah’s judgment will make between the righteous and the wicked. (Mt 3:12) In another sense, the fact that there is much grain to thresh and that the threshing takes a long time indicates prosperity and Jehovah’s blessing. (Le 26:5; Joe 2:24.)
Source: Dictionary of the Bible
aloao (ajloavw, 248), to thresh, from jalon, was. It is translated “that threshes” in the three passages in which it appears (1Co 9:9,10; 1Ti 5:18).¶ Cf. jalon, ERA.
Source: Vine New Testament Dictionary