Millstone
Millstone
(; in Rev 18:21 Textus Receptus , following B, has ; L WH [Note: H Westcott-Horts Greek Testament.] , following A, have ; C has ; Lat. mola)
The mill of the ancients (as of many Syrians to-day) was a quern-two circular stones, of which the upper and smaller rotated upon the other. The hard and monotonous labour of grinding was imposed on women; in wealthier houses, on female slaves (Exo 11:5, Mat 24:41). If the upper stone was small, it was turned by one person; if it was of greater size, two, three, or even four slaves required to work together at the task. The heavy toil was often somewhat lightened with a song. The writer of the Revelation alludes to these things in two successive verses. A great millstone flung impetuously (, with a rush, or indignantly; see Septuagint Hos 5:10) into the sea, to rise no more, is his image of the overthrow of Imperial Rome (Rev 18:21). So complete is the desolation he foresees, that the sound of the mill ( , the of the classics; cf. Septuagint in Ecc 12:4), the familiar murmur of domestic life, will never be heard again in the ruined city, which will have become a city of death (Rev 18:22).
Literature.-J. Yates, article Mola in Smiths DGRA [Note: GRA Dict. of Greek and Roman Antiquities.] 2; G. M. Mackie, Bible Manners and Customs2, 1903; W. Carslaw, article Mill, Millstone in Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) ; A. R. S. Kennedy, article Mill, Millstones in Encyclopaedia Biblica ; C. M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, 1888, ii. 179.
James Strahan.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Millstone
(, re’keb, usually a chariot, hence the upper millstone or rider, Deu 24:6; more fully. , Jdg 9:53; 2Sa 11:21; in Job 41:24 there is no Hebrew word corresponding; in Isa 47:2; Jer 25:10, ; elsewhere rendered mill; Gr. ). SEE MILL.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Millstone
milston. See MILL.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Millstone
Not to be taken in pledge
Deu 24:6
Probably used in executions by drowning
Mat 18:6; Mar 9:42; Luk 17:2
Abimelech killed by one being hurled upon him
Jdg 9:53
Figurative of the hard heart
Job 41:24
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Millstone
denotes “a handmill,” consisting of two circular stones, one above the other, the lower being fixed. From the center of the lower a wooden pin passes through a hole in the upper, into which the grain is thrown, escaping as flour between the stones and falling on a prepared material below them. The handle is inserted into the upper stone near the circumference. Small stones could be turned by one woman (mill-grinding was a work deemed fit only for women and slaves; cp. Jdg 16:21); larger ones were turned by two (cp. Mat 24:41, under MILL), or more.
Still larger ones were turned by an ass (onikos), Mat 18:6, RV, “a great millstone” (marg., “a millstone turned by an ass”), indicating the immediate and overwhelming drowning of one who causes one young believer to stumble; Mar 9:42 (where some mss. have lithos multikos, “a stone of a mill,” as in Luk 17:2); Rev 18:22 (some mss. have it in Rev 18:21, see below).
“of a mill,” occurs in Luk 17:2 (see above).
“made of millstone,” is used with lithos, “a stone;” and with the adjective megas, “great,” in the best mss. in Rev 18:21 (some have the word mulos; see A).