Threshing
Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing
it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it
[with] his horsemen....
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O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have
heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared
unto you....
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What the threshing process accomplishes. What happens has been described as follows:
"As these heavy sledges are drawn over the layer of straw and ears, they rub out the grain. This by its form and weight, sinks immediately through the straw, and thus escapes being hurt. The straw, which by its lightness remains on the surface, is slowly broken an...
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Transportation of grain to the threshing floor. The usual method of transporting the grain to the threshing floor is as follows: two large bundles of the grain are made secure by a network of rope and then placed a few feet apart. Then a camel is made to kneel in the space between them, and then the bundles are fastened to the animal's packsaddle. ...
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THRESHING THE GRAIN
Threshing floor. A typical Oriental threshing floor has been described by Thomson thus:
"The construction of the floors is very simple. A circular space, from thirty to fifty feet in diameter, is made level, if not naturally so, and the ground is smoothed off and beaten solid, that the earth may not mingle with the grain in th...
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Methods of threshing. Three methods of threshing were in use in ancient times, and in some places in the East today.
(1)
A flail was used for threshing small quantities of grain. Ruth must have used such a wooden instrument. "And beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley" (Ruth 2:17). And without doubt Gideon was also usi...
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