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Thresholds, The Thresholds, The. This word, Asuppe, appears to be inaccurately rendered in Neh 12:25, though its real force has, perhaps, not yet been discovered. The “house of Asuppim,” or simply “the Asuppim,” is mentioned in 1Ch 26:15; 1Ch 26:17, as a part, probably a gate of the enclosure of the “house of Jehovah,” apparently … Continue reading “Thresholds, The”

Thresholds Neh 12:25. Rather (See ASUPPIM.) Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary

Threshold (1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4, 5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4, 18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered “door” and “door-post.” (2.) ‘Asuppim, pl. (Neh. 12:25), rendered correctly “storehouses” in the Revised Version. In 1 Chr. 26:15, 17 the Authorized Version retains the word as … Continue reading “Threshold”

Threshing, Threshing-Floor THRESHING, THRESHING-FLOOR.See agriculture, 3. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible

Threshing-instrument was a sledge for driving over the sheaves and separating the grain. These sledges, called among the Hebrews by the general term , badrkanim, rendered briers inJudges 8:7, 16, were of two kinds, corresponding respectively with two words, the first of which alone is rendered as above in the, A.V. SEE THRESHING. 1. Morag … Continue reading “Threshing-instrument”

Threshing Floors among the ancient Jews, were only, as they are to this day in the east, round level plats of ground in the open air, where the corn was trodden out by oxen, the libycae areae of Horace. Thus, Gideon’s floor, Jdg 6:37, appears to have been in the open air; as was likewise … Continue reading “Threshing Floors”

Threshing-floor (, goren, ; Chald. , idddr, Dan 2:35), a level and hard- beaten plot in the open air (Jdg 6:37; 2Sa 6:6), on which the sheaves of grain (Mic 4:12) were threshed (Isa 21:10; Jer 51:33;.: Matthew 3, 12; the Mishna remarks that the threshers wore gloves, Kelim, 16:6), so that the wind had … Continue reading “Threshing floor”

THRESHING Was anciently and is still performed in the East, sometimes with a flail,Rth 2:17 Isa 28:27 ; sometimes by treading out the grain with unmuzzled oxen, Deu 25:4, but more generally by means of oxen dragging an uncouth instrument over the sheaves of grain. See CORN.The instrument most used in Palestine at this time … Continue reading “THRESHING”

Thresh Thresh, Threshing. Different modes of threshing are used in the East. A level spot was selected for the threshing-floor, generally in an exposed situation where advantage might be taken of the wind for winnowing or separating the corn from the chaff when the threshing process was completed. Robinson observed several of these floors near … Continue reading “Thresh”

Threescore threskor. See NUMBER. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Threescore * For THREESCORE see SIXTY and SEVENTY Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words